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. 2021 June 18 [2]See Explanation. Clicking on the picture will download the highest resolution version available. Devil Horns from a Ring of Fire Image Credit & [3]Copyright: [4]Madhup Rathi Explanation: [5]Atmospheric refraction flattened the solar disk and distorted its appearance in this telescopic view of an Atlantic sunrise [6]on June 10. From Belmar, New Jersey on the US east coast, the scene was [7]recorded at New Moon during this season's annular solar eclipse. The Moon in partial silhouette gives the rising Sun its crescent shape reminding some of the horns of the devil (or maybe a [8]flying canoe ...). But at its full annular phase this eclipsed Sun looked like a [9]ring of fire in the heavens. June's annular solar eclipse followed [10]on the heels of the total lunar eclipse of late May's Full Moon. Of course, that total lunar eclipse was a dramatic red [11]Blood Moon eclipse. Tomorrow's picture: light-weekend __________________________________________________________________ [12]< | [13]Archive | [14]Submissions | [15]Index | [16]Search | [17]Calendar | [18]RSS | [19]Education | [20]About APOD | [21]Discuss | [22]> __________________________________________________________________ Authors & editors: [23]Robert Nemiroff ([24]MTU) & [25]Jerry Bonnell ([26]UMCP) NASA Official: Phillip Newman [27]Specific rights apply. [28]NASA Web Privacy Policy and Important Notices A service of: [29]ASD at [30]NASA / [31]GSFC & [32]Michigan Tech. U. References 1. https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/archivepix.html 2. https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/image/2106/IMG_3915.jpg 3. https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/lib/about_apod.html#srapply 4. mailto: firstname [at] creativesap [dot] com 5. https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap170120.html 6. https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/4910 7. https://www.facebook.com/APOD.Sky/photos/a.3691846764252849/3691842077586651 8. https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chasse-galerie 9. https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap200615.html 10. https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap210612.html 11. https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap210604.html 12. https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap210617.html 13. https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/archivepix.html 14. https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/lib/apsubmit2015.html 15. https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/lib/aptree.html 16. https://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/cgi-bin/apod/apod_search 17. https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/calendar/allyears.html 18. https://apod.nasa.gov/apod.rss 19. https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/lib/edlinks.html 20. https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/lib/about_apod.html 21. http://asterisk.apod.com/discuss_apod.php?date=210618 22. https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap210619.html 23. http://www.phy.mtu.edu/faculty/Nemiroff.html 24. http://www.phy.mtu.edu/ 25. https://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/htmltest/jbonnell/www/bonnell.html 26. http://www.astro.umd.edu/ 27. https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/lib/about_apod.html#srapply 28. https://www.nasa.gov/about/highlights/HP_Privacy.html 29. https://astrophysics.gsfc.nasa.gov/ 30. https://www.nasa.gov/ 31. https://www.nasa.gov/centers/goddard/ 32. http://www.mtu.edu/