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Credit & Copyright:
Luis Miguel Meade Rodröguez
Explanation:
Venus has returned
as a brilliant morning star.
From a window seat on a flight to Mexico City,
the bright celestial beacon was captured just before sunrise in
this astronomical snapshot, taken on September 12.
Venus, at the upper right, shared the early predawn skies
with an old crescent Moon.
Seen from this stratospheric perspective, both mountain peaks and
clouds appear in silhouette along a glowing eastern horizon.
The dramatic, long, low cloud bank was created by venting
from planet Earth's active volcano
Popocatöpetl.
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