Astronomy Picture of the Day

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                                2021 June 18
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                       Devil Horns from a Ring of Fire
                Image Credit & [3]Copyright: [4]Madhup Rathi

   Explanation: [5]Atmospheric refraction flattened the solar disk and
   distorted its appearance in this telescopic view of an Atlantic sunrise
   [6]on June 10. From Belmar, New Jersey on the US east coast, the scene
   was [7]recorded at New Moon during this season's annular solar eclipse.
   The Moon in partial silhouette gives the rising Sun its crescent shape
   reminding some of the horns of the devil (or maybe a [8]flying canoe
   ...). But at its full annular phase this eclipsed Sun looked like a
   [9]ring of fire in the heavens. June's annular solar eclipse followed
   [10]on the heels of the total lunar eclipse of late May's Full Moon. Of
   course, that total lunar eclipse was a dramatic red [11]Blood Moon
   eclipse.

                      Tomorrow's picture: light-weekend
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