Astronomy Picture of the Day

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                               2024 January 27
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                            Full Observatory Moon
      Image Credit & [3]Copyright: [4]Yuri Beletsky ([5]Carnegie [6]Las
                       Campanas Observatory, [7]TWAN)

   Explanation: [8]A popular name for January's full moon in the northern
   hemisphere is the Full Wolf Moon. As the new year's first full moon, it
   rises over Las Campanas Observatory in this dramatic
   [9]Earth-and-moonscape. Peering from the foreground like astronomical
   eyes are the observatory's twin 6.5 meter diameter Magellan telescopes.
   The snapshot was captured with telephoto lens across rugged terrain in
   the Chilean Atacama Desert, taken at a distance of about 9 miles from
   the observatory and about [10]240,000 miles from [11]the lunar surface.
   Of course the first full moon of the [12]lunar new year, known to some
   as the Full Snow Moon, will rise on February 24.

                     Tomorrow's picture: Pluto in color
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