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Credit & Copyright: Serge Brunier
(TWAN)
Explanation:
From the windswept peak of
Mauna Kea, on the
Big Island of
Hawaii, your view of
the world at
night could look like this.
At an altitude of about 13,500 feet, the mountain top
is silhouetted in
the stunning skyscape
recorded near dusk in early December of 2005.
The volcanic
peak
rises just above a sea of storm clouds illuminated
by a bright Moon.
Planet Venus
is setting near the Moon as the brilliant evening star.
The scene also includes the faint,
milky band of our own galaxy's
disk of stars and cosmic dust clouds stretching from the horizon
into the sky along the right edge of the frame.
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Based on Astronomy Picture
Of the Day
Publications with keywords: Moon - Venus - clouds
Publications with words: Moon - Venus - clouds
See also:
- APOD: 2026 August 25 Á Earths Shadow Visualized with Lunar Eclipses
- APOD: 2026 August 2 Á A Fire Rainbow over West Virginia
- APOD: 2026 May 11 Á Moon Setting Behind Teide Volcano
- APOD: 2026 May 9 Á Messier Craters in Stereo
- APOD: 2026 April 15 Á The ISS Transits the Moon
- APOD: 2026 April 11 Á Artemis II: Flight Day 6
- The Bay of Rainbows