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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 July 25   
      
                                 Find the New Moon   
                 Image Credit & Copyright: Mohamad Soltanolkotabi   
      
      Explanation: Can you find the Moon? This usually simple task can be   
      quite difficult. Even though the Moon is above your horizon half of the   
      time, its phase can be anything from crescent to full. The featured   
      image was taken in late May from Sant Mart+¡ d'Emp+|ries, Spain, over the   
      Mediterranean Sea in the early morning. One reason you can't find this   
      moon is because it is very near to its new phase, when very little of   
      the half illuminated by the Sun is visible to the Earth. Another reason   
      is because this moon is near the horizon and so seen through a long   
      path of Earth's atmosphere -- a path which dims the already faint   
      crescent. Any crescent moon is only visible near the direction the Sun,   
      and so only locatable near sunrise of sunset. The Moon runs through all   
      of its phases in a month (moon-th), and this month the thinnest sliver   
      of a crescent -- a new moon -- will occur in three days.   
      
                       Tomorrow's picture: noctilucent comet   
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