Astronomy Picture of the Day 🔭 Solargraphic Analemmas -- Image Credit & Copyright: Dawid Rycabel (Pinholove) -- Explanation: For the northern hemisphere June 21 was the summer solstice, the Sun reaching its northernmost declination for the year. That would put it at the top of each of these three figure-8 curves, or analemmas, as it passed through the daytime sky over the village of Proboszczow, Poland. No sequence of digital exposures was used to construct the remarkable…
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Astronomy Picture of the Day 🔭 A Molten Galaxy Einstein Ring -- Image Credit: ESA/Hubble & NASA, S. Jha; Processing: Jonathan Lodge -- Explanation: It is difficult to hide a galaxy behind a cluster of galaxies. The closer cluster's gravity will act like a huge lens, pulling images of the distant galaxy around the sides and greatly distorting them. This is just the case observed in the featured image recently re-processed image from the Hubble Space Telescope. The cluster…