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A picture of the edge of the Earth’s familiar Moon takes up the right part of the frame, while a partial image of Saturn is visible just behind it on the left. Please see the explanation for more detailed information.
我们熟悉的月球边缘的照片占据了画面的右侧，而在其左侧，可以看到土星的部分影像。有关更多详细信息，请参阅说明。

2023年11月16日 Daytime Moon Meets Morning Star Image Credit & Copyright: Katarzyna Kaczmarczyk Explanation: Venus now appears as Earth’s brilliant morning star, shining above the southeastern horizon before dawn. For early morning risers, the silvery celestial beacon rose predawn in a close pairing with a waning crescent Moon on Thursday, November 9....

2023年2月25日 Crescent Moon Occultation Image Credit & Copyright: Fefo Bouvier Explanation: On February 22, a young Moon shared the western sky at sunset with bright planets Venus and Jupiter along the ecliptic plane. The beautiful celestial conjunction was visible around planet Earth. But from some locations Jupiter hid for a while, occulted by the cresce...

2022年12月9日 Mars Rises above the Lunar Limb Image Credit & Copyright: Tom Glenn Explanation: On the night of December 7 Mars wandered near the Full Moon. In fact the Red Planet was occulted, passing behind the Moon, when viewed from locations across Europe and North America. About an hour after disappearing behind the lunar disk Mars reappears in this st...

2022年11月11日 Blood Moon, Ice Giant Image Credit & Copyright: Ryan Han Explanation: On November 8 the Full Moon turned blood red as it slid through Earth’s shadow in a beautiful total lunar eclipse. During totality it also passed in front of, or occulted, outer planet Uranus for eclipse viewers located in parts of northern America and Asia. For a cl...

2022年6月2日 Lunar Occultation of Venus Image Credit & Copyright: Quentin Gineys Explanation: On May 27 Venus rose as the morning star, near the waning crescent Moon in a predawn sky already full of planets. It was close on the sky to the Moon’s crescent and a conjunction of the second an third brightest celestial beacons were enjoyed by skygazers ar...

2021年8月21日 Triple Transit and Mutual Events Image Credit & Copyright: Christopher Go Explanation: These three panels feature the Solar System’s ruling gas giant Jupiter on August 15 as seen from Cebu City, Philippines, planet Earth. On that date the well-timed telescopic views detail some remarkable performances, transits and mutual events, by Jup...

2020年8月15日 Mars at the Moon’s Edge Image Credit & Copyright: Sergio Scauso Explanation: Does the Moon ever block out Mars? Yes, the Moon occasionally moves in front of all of the Solar System’s planets. Just this past Sunday, as visible from some locations in South America, a waning gibbous Moon eclipsed Mars. The featured image from Córdoba...

2020 June 21 Moon Occults Venus Image Credit & Copyright: Dzmitry Kananovich Explanation: It may look like Earthrise, but it’s actually Venus-set. Just after sunrise two days ago, both the Moon and Venus also rose. But then the Moon overtook Venus. In the featured image sequence centered on the Moon, Venus is shown increasingly angularly close to t...

2019 August 14 Saturn Behind the Moon Image Credit: Peter Patonai (Astroscape Photography) Explanation: What’s that next to the Moon? Saturn. In its monthly trip around the Earth — and hence Earth’s sky — our Moon passed nearly in front of Sun-orbiting Saturn earlier this week. Actually the Moon passed directly in front of Saturn from...