Astronomy Picture of the Day

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      fascinating universe is featured, along with a brief explanation
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                              2023 September 10
   [2]A person is seen standing at the top of a ridge. The person appears
      as a silhouette onto the central dark region of an annular solar
    eclipse. The annular solar eclipse is a bright ring with a large dark
      hole in the middle. Please see the explanation for more detailed
                                information.

                  An Annular Solar Eclipse over New Mexico
                    Credit & Copyright: [3]Colleen Pinski

   Explanation: What is this person doing? In 2012, an annular eclipse of
   the Sun was visible over a [4]narrow path that crossed the northern
   Pacific Ocean and [5]several western US states. In an annular solar
   [6]eclipse, the Moon is too far from the Earth to [7]block out the
   entire Sun, leaving the Sun [8]peeking out over the Moon's disk in a
   [9]ring of fire. To capture this [10]unusual solar event, an
   industrious photographer drove from [11]Arizona to [12]New Mexico to
   find just the right vista. After setting up and just as the
   [13]eclipsed Sun was setting over a ridge about 0.5 kilometers away, a
   person unknowingly walked right into the shot. Although grateful for
   the unexpected human element, the photographer never learned the
   identity of the [14]silhouetted interloper. It appears likely that the
   person is holding a circular [15]device that would enable them to get
   their own view of the eclipse. [16]The shot was taken at sunset on 2012
   May 20 at 7:36 pm local time from [17]a park near [18]Albuquerque. Next
   month, on October 14, a different narrow swath across [19]North and
   South America will be exposed to a [20]different annular solar eclipse,
   if the sky is clear. Simultaneously, cloud-free observers almost
   anywhere on either continent will be able to see a [21]partial solar
   eclipse.

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   2. https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/image/2309/AnnularEclipse_Pinski_1522.jpg
   3. https://www.cp-pics.com/about.html
   4. http://eclipse.gsfc.nasa.gov/SEgoogle/SEgoogle2001/SE2012May20Agoogle.html
   5. https://stardate.org/content/ring-fire
   6. https://www.nasa.gov/content/eclipses-and-transits-overview
   7. https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap170301.html
   8. https://www.syfy.com/sites/syfy/files/2022/10/gettyimages-696166057.jpg
   9. https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap130509.html
  10. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DtkoAlwIpWY
  11. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arizona
  12. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Mexico
  13. https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap120522.html
  14. https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap160501.html
  15. http://www.mreclipse.com/Totality2/TotalityCh11.html
  16. http://www.cp-pics.com/p533893218/h4d180eaa#h4d180eaa
  17. http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2167595/Stunning-image-shows-boy-watching-solar-eclipse--taken-1-5-miles-away.html
  18. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aPkaLjssP54
  19. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Americas
  20. https://solarsystem.nasa.gov/eclipses/2023/oct-14-annular/where-when/
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  33. http://www.phy.mtu.edu/faculty/Nemiroff.html
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  39. https://astrophysics.gsfc.nasa.gov/
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