{"id":615549,"date":"2026-09-05T18:52:17","date_gmt":"2026-09-05T18:52:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/615549\/"},"modified":"2026-09-05T18:52:17","modified_gmt":"2026-09-05T18:52:17","slug":"apod-2026-september-5-chasing-the-moon-s-shadow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/615549\/","title":{"rendered":"APOD: 2026 September 5 \u2013 Chasing the Moon s Shadow"},"content":{"rendered":"

APOD: 2026 September 5 \u2013 Chasing the Moon s Shadow<\/p>\n

Discover the cosmos!<\/a>
\nEach day a different image or photograph of our fascinating universe is featured, along with a brief explanation written by a professional astronomer.\n<\/p>\n

2026 September 5
\n

\n\"See<\/a>\n<\/p>\n

Chasing the Moon’s Shadow
Image Credit:
\nNASA<\/a><\/p>\n

Explanation: <\/p>\n

Chasing the shadow<\/a>
\nof a New Moon, NASA\u2019s
\nWB-57F<\/a>
\nhigh altitude research aircraft
\ntook to the skies off the coast of Iceland on August 12 to observe a
\ntotal solar eclipse<\/a>.<\/p>\n

At 50,000 feet the aircraft was piloted along the precisely
\ndetermined path of totality to maximize its time in the Moon\u2019s shadow.<\/p>\n

A suite of high-resolution cameras on board was able to
\nrecord eclipse data<\/a>
\nfrom above the clouds, dust,
\nand atmospheric water vapor that interfere
\nwith observations made closer to the ground.<\/p>\n

This view from the cockpit, taken from an inflight video, captures the
\nsolar corona emerging<\/a>
\nat the beginning of totality.<\/p>\n

The sky appears dark in the shadow of the Moon.<\/p>\n

Venus is shining left of center in the video frame, while
\nJupiter and Mercury are just visible to the right of the eclipsed Sun.<\/p>\n

But the sky is bright along the distant horizon below,
\nbeyond the reach of the Moon’s shadow.<\/p>\n

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Jerry Bonnell (UMCP<\/a>)
NASA Official: Amber Straughn
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& Michigan Tech. U.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"APOD: 2026 September 5 \u2013 Chasing the Moon s Shadow Discover the cosmos! Each day a different image…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":615550,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[61,60,82,247],"class_list":["post-615549","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-space","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-science","tag-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/615549","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=615549"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/615549\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/615550"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=615549"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=615549"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=615549"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}