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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 July 18   
      
                                 ISS Meets Saturn   
                       Image Credit & Copyright: A.J. Smadi   
      
      Explanation: This month, bright planet Saturn rises in evening skies,   
      its rings oriented nearly edge-on when viewed from planet Earth. And in   
      the early morning hours on July 6, it posed very briefly with the   
      International Space Station when viewed from a location in Federal Way,   
      Washington, USA. This well-planned image, a stack of video frames,   
      captures their momentary conjunction in the same telescopic field of   
      view. With the ISS in low Earth orbit, space station and gas giant   
      planet were separated by almost 1.4 billion kilometers. Their apparent   
      sizes are comparable but the ISS was much brighter than Saturn and the   
      ringed planet's brightness has been increased for visibility in the   
      stacked image. Precise timing and an exact location were needed to   
      capture the ISS/Saturn conjunction.   
      
                         Tomorrow's picture: light-weekend   
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