Astronomy Picture of the Day

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                              2025 November 29
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                                 Moon Games
                Image Credit & [3]Copyright: [4]Giorgia Hofer

   Explanation: This is not a screen from [5]a video game. Nestled below
   the tree-line, the small mountain church does look like it might be
   hiding from Moon though. In the [6]well-composed telephoto snapshot,
   taken on November 23, the church walls are partly reflecting light from
   terrestrial flood lights. Of course, the Moon is reflecting light from
   the Sun. [7]At any given time the Sun illuminates fully half of the
   Moon's surface, also known as the lunar dayside, but on that night only
   a sliver of its sunlit surface was visible. About three days after New
   Moon, the Moon was in a [8]waxing crescent phase. The single exposure
   was captured shortly after sunset in skies near Danta di Cadore,
   northern Italy, planet Earth.

                  Tomorrow's picture: most distant landing
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