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Comet C/2025 F2 SWAN apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap250418.ht… #APOD

APOD: 2025 April 18 - Comet C/2025 F2 SWAN

A different astronomy and space science related image is featured each day, along with a brief explanation.
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Moon Near the Edge apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap250412.ht… #APOD

APOD: 2025 April 12 - Moon Near the Edge

A different astronomy and space science related image is featured each day, along with a brief explanation.
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The Da Vinci Glow

A 26 hour old Moon poses behind the craggy outline of the Italian #Dolomites in this twilight mountain and skyscape. The one second long exposure was captured near moonset on March 30. And while only a a sliver of its sunlit surface is visible, most of the Moon's disk can be seen by earthshine as light reflected from a bright planet Earth illuminates the lunar nearside.

Image Credit & Copyright: Giorgia Hofer

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Also known as the Moon's ashen glow, a description of earthshine in terms of sunlight reflected by Earth's oceans illuminating the Moon's dark surface was written over 500 years ago by Leonardo da Vinci. Of course earthshine is just the most familiar example of planetshine, the faint illumination of the dark portion of a moon by light reflected from its planet.
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