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Sun, Moon, and Two Planets Rising Over Earth’s Limb

August 5th, 2013 by Adam Voiland

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NASA astronaut Karen Nyberg took this photograph of moonrise and sunrise over Earth’s limb on August 4, 2013. In a tweet, Nyberg noted that she also saw Jupiter and Mercury as she looked out from the International Space Station, but the glare of the Sun’s light hid them in her photo.

When astronomer and Slate blogger Phil Plait fired up the image processing software on his computer down on Earth, he enhanced the brightness on Nyberg’s photo so that Jupiter and Mercury show up quite nicely. (See the enhanced image below.) Read more about the remarkable photograph on the Bad Astronomy blog.

Follow Nyberg’s Twitter and Pinterst feeds at:

https://twitter.com/AstroKarenN
http://pinterest.com/knyberg/pins/

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5 Responses to “Sun, Moon, and Two Planets Rising Over Earth’s Limb”

  1. Patricia Gothard says:
    August 5, 2013 at 11:42 pm

    You are such a lucky person to be out there sending us wonders THANK YOU

  2. ann mullen says:
    August 7, 2013 at 2:55 pm

    as Patricia said thank you so much for sharing your great adventurers with us.

  3. Christell says:
    August 7, 2013 at 11:23 pm

    Thank you for living our dream.

  4. Tulsidas kalwani says:
    August 14, 2013 at 11:02 pm

    Many thanks
    God bless you the team working on this n all
    Rgds
    Tulsidas

  5. mfmfchan says:
    September 1, 2013 at 8:24 pm

    Brilliant !!

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