Encircling the dark: Eyecatching photos this week
The world never ceases to illuminate us. These photos—what goes around comes around—resonate beyond their description for a leisurely flip or a deep read this week
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The moon eclipses the sun seen from Indiana, US, during a total solar eclipse that swept across North America on April 8, 2024. This year's path of totality briefly plunged communities in Mexico, the United States and Canada along the path into darkness. It took just 1 hour and 40 minutes for the moon's shadow to race more than 6,500 kilometres across the continent.
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A Christie's employee adjusts the painting "Le melon entamé, 1760" by Jean Simeon Chardin (1699-1779) during its presentation before the auction at Christie's auction house in Paris, France, on April 5, 2024. In a sense, the painting's circular format is an ode to roundness, encapsulating the balance of composition, light, colour, and shape of the fruit itself.
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Handmade copper and brassware plates are displayed in Chobar Machhindranath temple in Kirtipur on the outskirts of Kathmandu on April 2, 2024. Brass plates are used in traditional Nepali households as Pooja and serving plates.
