00:01On this day in space.
00:03On December 29th, 1777, Captain James Cook observed an annular solar eclipse.
00:09Captain Cook was a British explorer who sailed through uncharted areas and mapped much of the South Pacific.
00:14During his third and final voyage through the Pacific Ocean, he got to see the moon block out a part of the sun.
00:20Captain Cook and his crew set sail from England in 1776 to find the Northwest Passage leading to Asia.
00:26They sailed around the southern tip of Africa and were making their way around Australia when it happened.
00:31On the morning of December 29th, the moon passed in front of the sun.
00:35This created what looked like a ring of fire in the sky, or an annular solar eclipse.
00:40And that's what happened on this day in space.
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