According to the astronomers from NASA, they said that people in parts of Southeast Asia have a chance to witness a total solar eclipse on March 8, 2016 EST (March 9 local time). and this was ever seen before. People can see the sun in a new light during a total solar eclipse that will last over a minute in every location on its path. The moon will cast its shadow as it is all set to pass in front of the sun.

As the moon passes precisely between the sun and Earth, a relatively rare occurrence that happens only about once a year because of the fact that the moon and the sun do not orbit in the exact same plane, it will block the sun’s bright face, revealing the tenuous and comparatively faint solar atmosphere, the corona. Eclipses can be viewed using a solar-filtered telescope, eclipse glasses or a pinhole projector.

“You notice something off about the sunlight as you reach totality. The moon blocks the light of the sun’s surface very, very precisely you can see all the way down to the roots of the corona, where the atmosphere meets the sun’s surface,” said Sarah Jaeggli, a space scientist at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, US. “Your surroundings take on a twilight cast, even though it’s daytime and the sky is still blue.”

Totality will last for anywhere from one and a half to just over four minutes at each location though more than three hours will pass between the time the westernmost location sees the eclipse begin and when the easternmost location sees the eclipse end. People along the path of totality which is over 8,800 miles long, but only 97 miles wide at the widest point will have the opportunity to see the solar corona only while the sun’s face is totally covered by the moon while people outside this path will see varying degrees of a partial eclipse.

Total solar eclipses like this are possible because of very precise planetary geometry: The sun is 400 times wider than the moon, but it is also a little more than 400 times farther from Earth than the moon during total solar eclipses, so to our eyes they appear the same size in the sky. This means the moon can block the entirety of the sun’s face while obscuring only a tiny portion of the inner corona. Total solar eclipses are more than just visually fascinating.

Though only people along the narrow path of totality will see the total eclipse, millions more will see some degree of a partial solar eclipse in Asia and the Pacific, including Hawaii, Guam, and parts of Alaska. A partial eclipse will also be visible along the path of totality for over an hour before and after the total eclipse. Partial solar eclipses are much less dramatic than their total counterparts.