Astronomy Picture of the Day

   [1]Discover the cosmos! Each day a different image or photograph of our
      fascinating universe is featured, along with a brief explanation
                    written by a professional astronomer.

                                 2024 May 6

         IFRAME: [2]https://www.youtube.com/embed/28gtfSziCgU?rel=0

                  A Total Solar Eclipse from Sliver to Ring
     Video Credit & Copyright: [3]Reinhold Wittich; Music: Sunrise from
         [4]Also sprach Zarathusra ([5]R. Strauss) by [6]Sascha Ende

   Explanation: This is how the Sun disappeared from the daytime sky last
   month. The [7]featured time-lapse video was created from stills taken
   from [8]Mountain View, [9]Arkansas, [10]USA on 2024 April 8. First, a
   small sliver of a normally [11]spotted Sun went strangely dark. Within
   a few minutes, much of the background [12]Sun was hidden behind the
   advancing foreground [13]Moon. Within an hour, the only rays from the
   Sun [14]passing the Moon appeared like a [15]diamond ring. During
   totality, most of the [16]surrounding sky went dark, making the bright
   [17]pink prominences around the Sun's edge stand out, and making the
   [18]amazing corona appear to spread into the surrounding sky. The
   central view of the [19]corona shows an accumulation of frames taken
   during complete totality. As the video ends, just a few minutes later,
   [20]another diamond ring appeared -- this time on the [21]other side of
   the Moon. Within the next hour, the sky [22]returned to normal.

           Celebrate the Voids: [23]It's Black Hole Week at NASA!
                       Tomorrow's picture: black hole
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   3. https://www.wittich.com/?page_id=6
   4. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Also_sprach_Zarathustra
   5. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Strauss
   6. https://www.youtube.com/@saschasuploads
   7. https://youtu.be/28gtfSziCgU
   8. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mountain_View,_Arkansas
   9. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arkansas
  10. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States
  11. https://spaceplace.nasa.gov/solar-activity/
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  21. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Far_side_of_the_Moon
  22. https://static9.depositphotos.com/1062590/1212/i/450/depositphotos_12126489-Funny-ginger-cat-wearing-sunglasses-and-relaxing-on-a-coach.jpg
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