                  APOD: 2018 May 3 - Opposite the Setting Sun

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                                  2018 May 3
                                      [2]
                          Opposite the Setting Sun
                Image Credit & Copyright [3] : Roy Spencer [4]

Explanation: On April 30, a Full Moon [5] rose opposite the setting Sun. Its
yellowish moonglow silhouettes a low tree-lined ridge along Lewis Mountain in
this northeastern Alabama skyscape. Sharing [6] the telephoto field-of-view
opposite the Sun are Earth's grey shadow, the pinkish Belt of Venus, and
bright planet Jupiter. Nearing its own 2018 opposition on May 8, Jupiter [7]
is flanked by tiny pinpricks of light, three of its large Galilean moons.
Europa lies just below Jupiter, and Ganymede and Callisto are just above.
Closer and brighter, our own natural satellite appears to loom large but the
Moon is physically a little smaller than Ganymede [8]  and Callisto, and [9]
slightly larger than water world Europa [10] . Sharp eyes will also spot the
trails of two jets across the clear evening sky.

                   Tomorrow's picture: pixels in space [11]

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