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NASA Astronomy Picture of the Day

🌌 NASA Astronomy Picture of the Day

Clouds and the Golden Moon

Date: 2025-07-12

Clouds and the Golden Moon

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Explanation:

As the Sun set, a bright Full Moon rose on July 10. Its golden light illuminates clouds drifting through southern hemisphere skies in this well-composed telephoto image from ConceiΓ§Γ£o do CoitΓ©, Bahia, Brazil. The brightest lunar phase is captured here with both a short and long exposure. The two exposures were combined to reveal details of the lunar surface in bright moonlight and a subtle iridescence along the dramatically backlit cloudscape. Of course, July's Full Moon is a winter moon in the southern hemisphere. But in the north it's known to some as the Thunder Moon, likely a nod to the sounds of this northern summer month's typically stormy weather.