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Credit & Copyright: Amir Taheri
Explanation:
Have you contemplated your sky recently?
Tonight will be a good one for midnight meditators at
many northerly locations as
meteors from the
Geminids meteor shower will frequently
streak through.
The Geminds meteor shower has slowly been
building to a
crescendo and should peak tonight.
Pictured above ten days ago, a group of
celestial sightseers in the
Maranjab Desert in
Iran,
were treated to a dark and wondrous pre-dawn sky that contained
the planet Venus and a
crescent Moon.
Tonight Mars and Mercury should be
visible just above the southwestern horizon at sunset,
while the first quarter Moon will set around midnight.
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NASA Web Site Statements, Warnings, and Disclaimers
NASA Official: Jay Norris. Specific rights apply.
A service of: LHEA at NASA / GSFC
& Michigan Tech. U.
Based on Astronomy Picture
Of the Day
Publications with keywords: Moon - Venus - Geminids
Publications with words: Moon - Venus - Geminids
See also:
- APOD: 2025 August 23 B Fishing for the Moon
- APOD: 2025 July 20 B Lunar Nearside
- APOD: 2025 June 28 B Lunar Farside
- APOD: 2025 June 20 B Major Lunar Standstill 2024 2025
- APOD: 2025 June 18 B Space Station Silhouette on the Moon
- APOD: 2025 May 11 B The Surface of Venus from Venera 14
- APOD: 2025 April 22 B Terminator Moon: A Moonscape of Shadows