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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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                                  2021 December 4   
      
                              Iridescent by Moonlight   
                  Image Credit & Copyright: Marcella Giulia Pace   
      
      Explanation: In this snapshot from November 18, the Full Moon was not   
      far from Earth's shadow. In skies over Sicily the brightest lunar phase   
      was eclipsed by passing clouds though. The full moonlight was dimmed   
      and momentarily diffracted by small but similar sized water droplets   
      near the edges of the high thin clouds. The resulting iridescence   
      shines with colors like a lunar corona. On that night, the Full Moon   
      was also seen close to the Pleiades star cluster appearing at the lower   
      left of the iridescent cloud bank. The stars of the Seven Sisters were   
      soon to share the sky with a darker, reddened lunar disk.   
      
                         Tomorrow's picture: comet by eye   
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