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Credit & Copyright: Joe Orman
Explanation:
Are you an
early riser?
Over the last month or so, the
bright planets Jupiter and Saturn have
come to adorn eastern skies before
sunrise.
In fact,
astrophotographer Joe Orman anticipated that an early bird's
reward for looking east on June 10 would be this pleasing
arrangement of Jupiter (top right), a crescent Moon, and
Saturn (near center),
but he was surprised to also find these
eerie, iridescent clouds wafting through the pre-dawn sky over
suburban Phoenix, Arizona, USA.
The clouds turned out to be
rocket
engine
trails from
defense missile tests at the range in
White Sands, New Mexico ... about 300 miles away.
While the
Moon's phase is just past
new moon,
gone now from the pre-dawn horizon, brilliant
Jupiter and
Saturn can still be seen high toward the southeast in the
constellation Aries.
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