¿ Astronomy Picture of the Day [1]Discover the cosmos! Each day a different image or photograph of our fascinating universe is featured, along with a brief explanation written by a professional astronomer. 2020 June 22 [2]See Explanation. Clicking on the picture will download the highest resolution version available. Moon Mountains Magnified during Ring of Fire Eclipse Image Credit & Copyright: [3]Wang Letian ([4]Eyes at Night) Explanation: What are those dark streaks in this composite image of yesterday's solar eclipse? They are reversed shadows of mountains at the edge of the Moon. The center image, captured from [5]Xiamen, [6]China, has the Moon's center directly in front of the Sun's center. [7]The Moon, though, was [8]too far from [9]the Earth to completely block the entire Sun. Light that streamed around all of the edges of the Moon is called a [10]ring of fire. Images at each end of the sequence show [11]sunlight that streamed through lunar valleys. As the Moon moved further in front of the Sun, left to right, only the higher peaks on the Moon's perimeter could block sunlight. Therefore, the dark streaks are projected, distorted, reversed, and magnified [12]shadows of mountains at the Moon's edge. Bright areas are called [13]Bailey's Beads. Only a narrow swath across Earth's [14]Eastern Hemisphere was able to see yesterday's full annular solar eclipse. Next June, though, a narrow swath across Earth's [15]Northern Hemisphere will be able to see the [16]next annular solar eclipse. A [17]total solar eclipse will be [18]visible at the [19]bottom of the world near the end of this year. Gallery: Notable [20]images of the Annular Solar Eclipse of 2020 June submitted to APOD Tomorrow's picture: x-raying the sky __________________________________________________________________ [21]< | [22]Archive | [23]Submissions | [24]Index | [25]Search | [26]Calendar | [27]RSS | [28]Education | [29]About APOD | [30]Discuss | [31]> __________________________________________________________________ Authors & editors: [32]Robert Nemiroff ([33]MTU) & [34]Jerry Bonnell ([35]UMCP) NASA Official: Phillip Newman [36]Specific rights apply. [37]NASA Web Privacy Policy and Important Notices A service of: [38]ASD at [39]NASA / [40]GSFC & [41]Michigan Tech. U. References 1. https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/archivepix.html 2. https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/image/2006/BeadMountains_Letian_3000.jpg 3. http://www.luckwlt.com/About%20Me.html 4. http://www.luckwlt.com/ 5. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ke5nVmMxIwY 6. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/China 7. https://moon.nasa.gov/ 8. https://eclipse.aas.org/sites/eclipse.aas.org/files/Total-Annular-TQ.jpg 9. https://solarsystem.nasa.gov/planets/earth/overview/ 10. https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap200615.html 11. https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap170301.html 12. https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap180507.html 13. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baily%27s_beads 14. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eastern_Hemisphere 15. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Northern_Hemisphere 16. https://www.timeanddate.com/eclipse/list.html 17. https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap190701.html 18. https://www.timeanddate.com/eclipse/solar/2020-december-14 19. https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap170730.html 20. https://www.facebook.com/pg/APOD.Sky/photos/?tab=album&album_id=2706549852782550 21. https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap200621.html 22. https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/archivepix.html 23. https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/lib/apsubmit2015.html 24. https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/lib/aptree.html 25. https://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/cgi-bin/apod/apod_search 26. https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/calendar/allyears.html 27. https://apod.nasa.gov/apod.rss 28. https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/lib/edlinks.html 29. https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/lib/about_apod.html 30. http://asterisk.apod.com/discuss_apod.php?date=200622 31. https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap200623.html 32. http://www.phy.mtu.edu/faculty/Nemiroff.html 33. http://www.phy.mtu.edu/ 34. https://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/htmltest/jbonnell/www/bonnell.html 35. http://www.astro.umd.edu/ 36. https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/lib/about_apod.html#srapply 37. https://www.nasa.gov/about/highlights/HP_Privacy.html 38. https://astrophysics.gsfc.nasa.gov/ 39. https://www.nasa.gov/ 40. https://www.nasa.gov/centers/goddard/ 41. http://www.mtu.edu/