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Credit & Copyright: Steven Gilbert
Explanation:
Have you contemplated your home star recently?
Featured here, a
Sun partially eclipsed on the top left by the Moon
is also seen eclipsed by
earthlings contemplating the eclipse below.
This
spectacular menagerie of silhouettes was taken in 2012 from the
Glen Canyon National Recreation Area near
Page,
Arizona,
USA,
where park rangers and astronomers expounded on the
unusual event
to interested gatherers.
Also, faintly visible on the Sun's disk,
just to the lower right of the dark Moon's disk, is a
group of sunspots.
A new solar eclipse will occur this week and give many people in
northern North America, Europe, and northwestern Africa
a new chance to contemplate a
partially eclipsed Sun.
A thin swath of
Earth from
Greenland to Portugal
will further experience a
total solar eclipse.
An open question is whether any
meteors
from the peaking
Perseids will be visible during totality.
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Based on Astronomy Picture
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Publications with keywords: Sun - eclipse
Publications with words: Sun - eclipse
See also:
- APOD: 2026 August 6 Á New Sharpest Image of the Sun Uncovers Instability
- APOD: 2026 February 11 Á A Year of Sunspots
- APOD: 2026 February 8 Á Active Sunspot Region 4366 Crosses the Sun
- APOD: 2025 December 7 Á The Sun and Its Missing Colors
- APOD: 2025 May 21 Á International Space Station Crosses the Sun
- APOD: 2025 March 16 Á Venus and the Triply Ultraviolet Sun
- APOD: 2024 September 2 Á A Triangular Prominence Hovers Over the Sun