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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.   
      
                                    2024 May 6   
      
                     A Total Solar Eclipse from Sliver to Ring   
       Video Credit & Copyright: Reinhold Wittich; Music: Sunrise from Also   
                   sprach Zarathusra (R. Strauss) by Sascha Ende   
      
      Explanation: This is how the Sun disappeared from the daytime sky last   
      month. The featured time-lapse video was created from stills taken from   
      Mountain View, Arkansas, USA on 2024 April 8. First, a small sliver of   
      a normally spotted Sun went strangely dark. Within a few minutes, much   
      of the background Sun was hidden behind the advancing foreground Moon.   
      Within an hour, the only rays from the Sun passing the Moon appeared   
      like a diamond ring. During totality, most of the surrounding sky went   
      dark, making the bright pink prominences around the Sun's edge stand   
      out, and making the amazing corona appear to spread into the   
      surrounding sky. The central view of the corona shows an accumulation   
      of frames taken during complete totality. As the video ends, just a few   
      minutes later, another diamond ring appeared -- this time on the other   
      side of the Moon. Within the next hour, the sky returned to normal.   
      
                Celebrate the Voids: It's Black Hole Week at NASA!   
                          Tomorrow's picture: black hole   
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          Authors & editors: Robert Nemiroff (MTU) & Jerry Bonnell (UMCP)   
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