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Κυριακή 28 Μαΐου 2023

Astronomy Picture Of The Day: Observatory Aligned with Moon Occulting Jupiter

 

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Explanation: Sometimes we witness the Moon moving directly in front of -- called occulting -- one of the planets in our Solar SystemEarlier this month that planet was Jupiter. Captured here was the moment when Jupiter re-appeared from behind the surface of our Moon. The Moon was in its third quarter, two days before the dark New Moon. Now, our Moon is continuously half lit by the Sun, but when in its third quarter, relatively little of that half can be seen from the Earth. Pictured, the Moon itself was aligned behind the famous Lick Observatory in CaliforniaUSA, on the summit of Mount HamiltonCoincidentally, Lick enabled the discovery of a moon of Jupiter: Amalthea, the last visually detected moon of Jupiter after Galileo's observations.

https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap230524.html

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