Astronomy Picture of the Day

   [1]Discover the cosmos! Each day a different image or photograph of our
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                                2021 June 11
    [2]See Explanation. Clicking on the picture will download the highest
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                                Eclipse Flyby
   Image Credit & [3]Copyright: [4]Zev Hoover, Christian Lockwood, and Zoe
                                  Chakoian

   Explanation: [5]On June 10 a New Moon passed in front of the Sun. In
   silhouette only two days after [6]reaching apogee, the most distant
   point in its elliptical orbit, the Moon's small apparent size helped
   create an annular solar eclipse. The brief but spectacular annular
   phase of the eclipse shows a bright solar disk as a ring of fire when
   viewed along its narrow, northerly shadow track across planet Earth.
   Cloudy early morning skies along the US east coast held [7]gorgeous
   views of a partially eclipsed Sun though. Rising together Moon and Sun
   are captured in a sequence of consecutive frames near maximum eclipse
   in this digital composite, seen from Quincy Beach south of Boston,
   Massachusetts. [8]The serendipitous sequence follows the undulating
   path of a bird in flight joining the Moon in silhouette with the rising
   Sun.

                      Tomorrow's picture: light-weekend
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References

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   4. https://www.facebook.com/fiddleoak
   5. https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/4910
   6. https://www.fourmilab.ch/earthview/pacalc.html
   7. https://www.flickr.com/photos/nasahqphoto/albums/72157719391182014
   8. https://www.facebook.com/fiddleoak/photos/pb.218639154975119.-2207520000../1869092119929806/?type=3&theater
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  18. http://asterisk.apod.com/discuss_apod.php?date=210611
  19. https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap210612.html
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