This image highlights Baily's deads, a feature of total solar eclipses that are visible at the very beginning and the very end of totality. It's composed of a series of images taken during a total solar eclipse visible from ESO's La Silla Observatory on 2 July 2019. Baily's Beads are caused by the Moon's mountains, valleys, and craters. These surface features create an uneven edge of the Moon,...