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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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                                  2022 February 4   
      
                                 Moons at Twilight   
                      Image Credit & Copyright: Robert Fedez   
      
      Explanation: Even though Jupiter was the only planet visible in the   
      evening sky on February 2, it shared the twilight above the western   
      horizon with the Solar System's brightest moons. In a single exposure   
      made just after sunset, the Solar System's ruling gas giant is at the   
      upper right in this telephoto field-of-view from Cancun, Mexico. The   
      snapshot also captures our fair planet's own natural satellite in its   
      young crescent phase. The Moon's disk looms large, its familiar face   
      illuminated mostly by earthshine. But the four points of light lined-up   
      with Jupiter are Jupiter's own large Galilean moons. Top to bottom are   
      Ganymede, [Jupiter], Io, Europa, and Callisto. Ganymede, Io, and   
      Callisto are physically larger than Earth's Moon while water world   
      Europa is only slightly smaller.   
      
                         Tomorrow's picture: light-weekend   
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