baily's beads

/B EY1 L IY0 EH0 S B IY0 D Z/
noun
  1. 1

    (astronomy) A feature of total solar eclipses. As the moon "grazes" by the sun during a solar eclipse, the rugged lunar limb topography allows beads of sunlight to shine through in some places and not in others.

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