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Astronomy Picture of the Day - Saturn at the Moon's Edge
NASA ^ | 27 Jul, 2024 | Image Credit & Copyright: Chengcheng Xu

Posted on 07/27/2024 12:07:32 PM PDT by MtnClimber

Explanation: Saturn now rises before midnight in planet Earth's sky. On July 24, the naked-eye planet was in close conjunction, close on the sky, to a waning gibbous Moon. But from some locations on planet Earth the ringed gas giant was occulted, disappearing behind the Moon for about an hour from skies over parts of Asia and Africa. Because the Moon and bright planets wander through the sky near the ecliptic plane, such occultation events are not uncommon, but they can be dramatic. In this telescopic view from Nanjing, Jiangsu, China, Saturn is caught moments before its disappearance behind the lunar disk. The snapshot gives the illusion that Saturn hangs just above Glushko crater, a 43 kilometer diameter, young, ray crater near the Moon's western edge. Of course, the Moon is 400 thousand kilometers away, compared to Saturn's distance of 1.4 billion kilometers.


TOPICS: Astronomy; Astronomy Picture of the Day; Science
KEYWORDS: apod; nasa
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1 posted on 07/27/2024 12:07:32 PM PDT by MtnClimber
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2 posted on 07/27/2024 12:07:47 PM PDT by MtnClimber (For photos of scenery and wildlife, click on my screen name for my FR home page. More photos added.)
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Pinging the APOD list

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3 posted on 07/27/2024 12:07:57 PM PDT by MtnClimber (For photos of scenery and wildlife, click on my screen name for my FR home page. More photos added.)
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Saturn’s rings are almost edge-on this year and will be even thinner next year.


4 posted on 07/27/2024 12:15:10 PM PDT by zeebee
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That is an alien spacecraft. I have seen them in several documentaries. Here is “Saturn”.

https://m.blog.naver.com/kds941014/221130806617?view=img_33


5 posted on 07/28/2024 12:35:59 AM PDT by minnesota_bound (Need more money to buy everything now)
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