A feature of totalsolar 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.
Origin
In honour of Francis Baily, who first fully explained the phenomenon in 1836.
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