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                           Astronomy Picture of the Day   
      
       Discover the cosmos! Each day a different image or photograph of our   
         fascinating universe is featured, along with a brief explanation   
                       written by a professional astronomer.   
      
                                  2025 January 3   
      
                                   Eclipse Pair   
                        Image Credit & Copyright: Josh Dury   
      
      Explanation: Eclipses tend to come in pairs. Twice a year, during an   
      eclipse season that lasts about 34 days, Sun, Moon, and Earth can   
      nearly align. Then the full and new phases of the Moon, separated by   
      just over 14 days, create a lunar and a solar eclipse. But only rarely   
      is the alignment at both new moon and full moon phases during a single   
      eclipse season close enough to produce a pair with both total (or a   
      total and an annular) lunar and solar eclipses. More often, partial   
      eclipses are part of any eclipse season. In fact, the last eclipse   
      season of 2024 produced this fortnight-separated eclipse pair: a   
      partial lunar eclipse on 18 September and an annular solar eclipse on 2   
      October. The time-lapse composite images were captured from Somerset,   
      UK (left) and Rapa Nui planet Earth. The 2025 eclipse seasons will see   
      a total lunar eclipse on 14 March paired with a partial solar eclipse   
      on 29 March, and a total lunar eclipse on 8 September followed by a   
      partial solar eclipse on 21 September.   
      
                         Tomorrow's picture: light-weekend   
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