July 20, 2006
In the time it took you to read this, the Earth moved another thousand miles through space. You are not standing still. You never have been.
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Birthday · July 20, 2006
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APOD published July 20, 2006. Credit: Jerry Lodriguss (Catching the Light). A publication-date match, not a photo taken on your date. Independent of NASA.
This lovely twilight scene, recorded last April, finds a young crescent Moon low in the west at sunset. Above it, stars shine in the darkening sky but they too are soon to drop below the western horizon. These stars and constellations are prominent in the northern hemisphere winter sky and as the season changes, slowly give way to the stars of summer. Sliding your mouse over the picture will detail the constellations and stars in view, including Orion, Gemini, Auriga, Perseus, and the Hyades and Pleiades star clusters.
Image credit: Jerry Lodriguss (Catching the Light)