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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.   
      
                                  2022 January 6   
      
                    The Last Days of Venus as the Evening Star   
                  Image Credit & Copyright: Tamas Ladanyi (TWAN)   
      
      Explanation: That's not a young crescent Moon posing behind cathedral   
      towers after sunset. It's Venus in a crescent phase. About 40 million   
      kilometers away and about 2 percent illuminated by sunlight, it was   
      captured with camera and telephoto lens in this series of exposures as   
      it set in western skies on January 1 from Veszprem, Hungary. The bright   
      celestial beacon was languishing in the evening twilight, its days as   
      the Evening Star coming to a close as 2022 began. But it was also   
      growing larger in apparent size and becoming an ever thinner crescent   
      in telescopic views. Heading toward a (non-judgemental) inferior   
      conjunction, the inner planet will be positioned between Earth and Sun   
      on January 9 and generally lost from view in the solar glare. A   
      crescent Venus will soon reappear though. Rising in the east by   
      mid-month just before the Sun as the brilliant Morning Star.   
      
             Status Updates: Deploying the James Webb Space Telescope   
                     Tomorrow's picture: What the penguin saw.   
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