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                           Astronomy Picture of the Day   
      
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                                  2022 January 22   
      
                           The Full Moon and the Dancer   
                       Image Credit & Copyright: Elena Pinna   
      
      Explanation: On Monday, January's Full Moon rose as the Sun set.   
      Spotted near the eastern horizon, its warm hues are seen in this photo   
      taken near Cagliari, capital city of the Italian island of Sardinia. Of   
      course the familiar patterns of light and dark across the Moon's   
      nearside are created by bright rugged highlands and dark smooth lunar   
      maria. Traditionally the patterns are seen as pareidolia, giving the   
      visual illusion of a human face like the Man in the Moon, or familiar   
      animal like the Moon rabbit. But for a moment the swarming murmuration,   
      also known as a flock of starlings, frozen in the snapshot's field of   
      view lends another pareidolic element to the scene. Some see the   
      graceful figure of a dancer enchanted by moonlight.   
      
                   Tomorrow's picture: moons, rings, and shadows   
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