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                           Astronomy Picture of the Day   
      
       Discover the cosmos! Each day a different image or photograph of our   
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                                 2025 February 15   
      
                                Parhelia at Abisko   
                     Image Credit & Copyright: Felipe Menzella   
      
      Explanation: Three suns seem to hug the horizon in this otherworldly   
      winterscape. But the evocative scene was captured during a February 3rd   
      snowmobile exploration of the mountainous region around Abisko National   
      Park, northern Sweden, planet Earth. The two bright spots on either   
      side of Earth's Sun are parhelia (singular parhelion), also known as   
      mock suns or sun dogs. The parhelia are caused by hexagonal ice   
      crystals suspended in the hazy atmosphere that reflect and refract   
      sunlight. Commonly seen in winter and at high latitudes, the bright   
      parhelia lie along the visible 22 degree ice halo of the Sun.   
      
                       Tomorrow's picture: swooping jupiter   
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