APOD: 2026 September 15 - A Daytime Eclipse: Moon Occults Venus - NASA Science
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Arnaud Mariat, photographer in Cessy (Ain), saw his amazing image selected by the Nasa, who daily publishes his "photo of astronomy of the day". On the menu: the planet Venus "removing" from behind the Moon...
Astronomy. "La Lune Occultant Venus" : This Sublime Photo of a Frenchman Was selected... by the Nasa
Arnaud Mariat, photographer in Cessy (Ain), saw his amazing image selected by the Nasa, who daily publishes his "photo of astronomy of the day". On the menu: the planet Venus "removing" from behind the Moon...
APOD: 2026 September 15 - A Daytime Eclipse: Moon Occults Venus - NASA Science
APOD Science APOD APOD: 2026 September 15 – A… Today’s APOD Archive Submissions Index Search Calendar RSS Education About Discuss APOD Astronomy Picture of the Day 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. A Daytime […]
The Nasa chose to highlight a beautiful heavenly photograph immortalized from France. The Moon and Venus in crescent were immortalized in the middle of the day, since Cessy in Ain. What is the relationship between Cessy, a charming French commune, and Nasa? Venus. All this makes no sense a priori, but
The photo of the crowded Moon shared by netizens on September 14, 2026 turned out to be related to the phenomenon of occultation of Venus by the Moon. |An occultation of Venus occurs when the Moon appears to pass in front of Venus so that the planet appears to disappear from the view of observers on Earth. |The phenomenon can be observed from a number of areas of western Indonesia, including Sumatra, Banten, Jakarta, Bandung, and parts of West K…
In the late morning the moon passed before the planet Venus, making it invisible to our eyes (the phenomenon is called concealment). While in the evening the two stars gave rise to a suggestive conjunction (the kiss between the moon and Venus)
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