Astronomy Picture of the Day

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                                2024 April 20
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                             Diamonds in the Sky
                Image Credit & [3]Copyright: [4]Wright Dobbs

   Explanation: [5]When the dark shadow of the Moon raced across North
   America on April 8, [6]sky watchers along the shadow's narrow central
   path were treated to a total solar eclipse. During the New Moon's
   shadow play diamonds glistened twice in the [7]eclipse-darkened skies.
   [8]The transient celestial jewels appeared immediately before and after
   the total eclipse phase. That's when the rays of a vanishing and then
   emerging sliver of solar disk are just visible behind the silhouetted
   Moon's edge, creating the appearance of a shiny diamond set in a dark
   ring. [9]This dramatic timelapse composite from north-central Arkansas
   captures both diamond ring moments of [10]this total solar eclipse. The
   diamond rings are separated by the ethereal beauty of [11]the solar
   corona visible during totality.

                       Tomorrow's picture: perijove 16
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    Authors & editors: [23]Robert Nemiroff ([24]MTU) & [25]Jerry Bonnell
                                 ([26]UMCP)
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                         [33]NASA Science Activation
                           & [34]Michigan Tech. U.

References

   1. https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/archivepix.html
   2. https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/image/2404/tse2024Dobbs.jpg
   3. https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/lib/about_apod.html#srapply
   4. https://www.instagram.com/wrightdobbs/
   5. https://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/images/152663/total-solar-eclipse-darkens-north-america
   6. https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap190704.html
   7. https://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/images/152683/looking-up-and-down-during-the-eclipse
   8. http://www.alpo-astronomy.org/eclipse/observeeclipses/chapter9.htm
   9. https://www.instagram.com/wrightdobbs/p/C5i5kpHL1V4/
  10. https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.410844681644115&type=3
  11. https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap240405.html
  12. https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap240418.html
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  14. https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/lib/apsubmit2015.html
  15. https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/lib/aptree.html
  16. https://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/cgi-bin/apod/apod_search
  17. https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/calendar/allyears.html
  18. https://apod.nasa.gov/apod.rss
  19. https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/lib/edlinks.html
  20. https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/lib/about_apod.html
  21. http://asterisk.apod.com/discuss_apod.php?date=240420
  22. https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap240421.html
  23. http://www.phy.mtu.edu/faculty/Nemiroff.html
  24. http://www.phy.mtu.edu/
  25. https://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/htmltest/jbonnell/www/bonnell.html
  26. http://www.astro.umd.edu/
  27. https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/lib/about_apod.html#srapply
  28. https://www.nasa.gov/about/highlights/HP_Privacy.html
  29. https://www.nasa.gov/general/accessibility/
  30. https://astrophysics.gsfc.nasa.gov/
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  32. https://www.nasa.gov/centers/goddard/
  33. https://science.nasa.gov/learners
  34. http://www.mtu.edu/