Day is set to turn into night when the sun vanishes from the sky during a rare total solar eclipse on a remote peninsula on the Western Australian coast. About 20,000 eclipse chasers from around the world are expected to witness the phenomenon on Thursday when the moon casts a 40-kilometre-wide shadow over the World…

Thousands of sightseers gathered in Western Australia’s red dirt as a total solar eclipse plunged day into darkness for one minute during the rare celestial event. The total eclipse fell across the North West Cape in WA’s north at about 11.29 a.m. AWST (1.29 p.m. AEST) when the moon completely blocked the sun for a…