A “ring of fire” replaced the sun over cities in South America and parts of Africa Sunday morning as the Annular Solar Eclipse played out in the skies.

The moon passed in front of the sun, leaving a narrow ring of light in the dark sky.

The eclipse began "at the southern tip of South America, first making landfall in Chile and passing through Argentina, before traveling ," according to online astronomy service Slooh.

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in Argentina to see the phenomenon, DW.com reports.

This event isn’t considered a total eclipse, as the moon was too far away in its monthly orbit to cover the sun completely. However, and, at mid-eclipse, an outer edge of the sun appeared briefly around the moon, according to EarthSky.org.

Only those in the Southern Hemisphere in the shadow path were able to see this eclipse.

The image above shows the moon moving to cover the sun for an annular solar eclipse, as seen from the Estancia El Muster, near Sarmiento, Chubut province, in Argentina on Feb. 26, 2017.I (ALEJANDRO PAGNI/AFP/Getty Images)

At a Glance

The Annular Solar Eclipse transformed the sun into a ring of fire. The phenomenon was only visible in parts of South America and Africa.