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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.   
      
                                   2023 April 21   
      
                       Solar Eclipse from Western Australia   
                     Image Credit & Copyright: Gwena+½l Blanck   
      
      Explanation: Along a narrow path that mostly avoided landfall, the   
      shadow of the New Moon raced across planet Earth's southern hemisphere   
      on April 20 to create a rare annular-total or hybrid solar eclipse. A   
      mere 62 seconds of totality could be seen though, when the dark central   
      lunar shadow just grazed the North West Cape, a peninsula in western   
      Australia. From top to bottom these panels capture the beginning,   
      middle, and end of that fleeting total eclipse phase. At start and   
      finish, solar prominences and beads of sunlight stream past the lunar   
      limb. At mid-eclipse the central frame reveals the sight only easily   
      visible during totality and most treasured by eclipse chasers, the   
      magnificent corona of the active Sun. Of course eclipses tend to come   
      in pairs. On May 5, the next Full Moon will just miss the dark inner   
      part of Earth's shadow in a penumbral lunar eclipse.   
      
                         Tomorrow's picture: light-weekend   
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