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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 July 27   
      
                             Saturn at the Moon's Edge   
                      Image Credit & Copyright: Chengcheng Xu   
      
      Explanation: Saturn now rises before midnight in planet Earth's sky. On   
      July 24, the naked-eye planet was in close conjunction, close on the   
      sky, to a waning gibbous Moon. But from some locations on planet Earth   
      the ringed gas giant was occulted, disappearing behind the Moon for   
      about an hour from skies over parts of Asia and Africa. Because the   
      Moon and bright planets wander through the sky near the ecliptic plane,   
      such occultation events are not uncommon, but they can be dramatic. In   
      this telescopic view from Nanjing, Jiangsu, China, Saturn is caught   
      moments before its disappearance behind the lunar disk. The snapshot   
      gives the illusion that Saturn hangs just above Glushko crater, a 43   
      kilometer diameter, young, ray crater near the Moon's western edge. Of   
      course, the Moon is 400 thousand kilometers away, compared to Saturn's   
      distance of 1.4 billion kilometers.   
      
                           Tomorrow's picture: sundance   
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