February 3, 2022
Consider this: the iron in your blood was forged in a supernova explosion billions of years ago.
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APOD published February 3, 2022. Credit: Juan Luis Cánovas Pérez. A publication-date match, not a photo taken on your date. Independent of NASA.
ven though Venus (left) was the brightest planet in the sky it was less than 1/30th the apparent size of the Moon on January 29. But as both rose before the Sun they shared a crescent phase, and for a moment their visible disks were each about 12 percent illuminated as they stood above the southeastern horizon. The similar sunlit crescents were captured in these two separate images. Made at different magnifications, each panel is a composite of stacked video frames taken with a small telescope. Venus goes through a range of phases like the Moon as the inner planet wanders from evening sky to morning sky and back again with a period of 584 days. Of course the Moon completes its own cycle of phases, a full lunation, in about 29.5 days.
Image credit: Juan Luis Cánovas Pérez