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15What color is the Moon? Marcella Giulia Pace has been photographing the Moon for more than a decade and she has captured it in numerous colors, including shades of blue, pink, orange and even a pale greenThe Moon itself, viewed from space, is pretty much shades of grey. The colors we see from Earth depend primarily on various effects in our atmosphere. For example, red and pink are common when the Moon is low in the sky. Particles of a certain size in the air can give the blue colors. Lunar eclipses give shades of red, which can be darkened by volcanic eruptions. Colors of the Moon
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Dear Mona,
I saw this in my newspaper, it was so beautiful! I recall actually seeing some of those colors and still never realized how different the many phases were.
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16My favorite star cluster is the Pleiades, also known as the Seven Sisters, in the constellation Taurus. They're hot blue stars, as you can see in Raul Villaverde Fraile's photograph. The surrounding dust cloud creates a swirl of mystery around them.In Greek mythology the Pleiades are the seven daughters of the Titan Atlas and the Oceanid Pleione. But you'll notice that there are more than seven stars in the photo. The cluster has over 800 stars, but few of them are visible to the naked eye. Usually, people see no more than six, so there are are also stories about a missing Pleiad. Pleiades: The Seven Sisters Star Cluster
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17In 2020 there were two solar eclipses. One was on June 21st, the summer solstice, an annular eclipse. Somak Raychaudhury took a picture showing dozens of images of the partial eclipse in Pune, India. The images are on the ground in a bamboo grove. The leaves of the bamboo let sunlight through as they formed a set of pinholes. Each little gap projected an image of the eclipsing Sun. If Pune had been along the path of totality, the ground would have been full of images of bright rings. An annular eclipse occurs when the new Moon doesn't completely block the Sun's disk, leaving a ring, often called the “ring of fire”. Eclipse under the Bamboo
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18Wow! Is this a supermoon? Or is the picture photoshopped? Kelvin Hennessey entered it in the astrophotography competition of the Central West Astronomical Society in Australia. Cape Byron, in northern New South Wales, is the most easterly point of mainland Australia.”Supermoon” is just a name given to a full moon at perigee, i.e., when it's closest to the Earth. It doesn't look particularly bigger than other full moons. The photo is real, not photoshopped. But if you were actually near the Byron Bay Lighthouse, the Moon wouldn't look like this. To get the giant Moon you have to be quite some distance away, have a long lens, and know what you're doing. Cape Byron Moonrise
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Wow! That moon is amazing. Almost as if you could touch it. When I lived in the middle of the prairies and the harvest moon rose in September or October it was always larger than life. Amazing really.
Thanks for posting those great images and articles.
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Monika, thank you for your comments and kind words. Seeing the Moon over the prairie sounds like a wonderful sight.
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19This strange image by Marcin Zajac looks like a scene from science fiction, but it is indeed a view of the Milky Way from Earth. You can also see Jupiter and Saturn in the lower left part of the picture. It's from 2008, but in 2020 Jupiter and Saturn appear close together in the sky and will seem to merge at the winter solstice.This glorious image wasn't taken as a one-shot snap. It's a composite, but both foreground and background shots were taken from the same location. The place was the badlands of the Ah-Shi-Sle-Pah Wilderness in New Mexico's San Juan Wilderness. The “alien throne” is a kind of rock formation known as a hoodoo. [APOD] Alien Throne
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20The aurora borealis – northern lights – are one of nature's most extraordinary sights. This photo of a fantastic light show above a Norwegian fishing village was taken by Andreas Ettl. It was short-listed for the Astronomy Photographer of the Year competition.An aurora is created by atomic particles from the Sun being funnelled along Earth's magnetic field lines. Slamming into our atmosphere at the poles, collisions with particles of the upper atmosphere makes it glow like a fluorescent lamp. An aurora australis is produced in the southern hemisphere at the same time. Hamnøy Lights
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21Cyril Byrne has photographed the rising solstice Sun illuminating the inside of a 5000-year-old megalithic tomb in Newgrange, in County Meath, Ireland. The tomb is aligned with the solstice Sun which shines down an 18-meter tunnel.[Irish Times/APOD]The 2020 winter solstice – summer solstice in the southern hemisphere – occurs on December 21st at 10.02 UTC. This is when North Pole is tilted farthest away from the Sun and the South Pole has its maximum tilt towards the Sun. Solstice at Newgrange
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