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Missle launch from Vanderbilt AFB in California at sunset. Contrail is high in the stratosphere and shows the upper winds making the contrail twist. Also expansion of gases near the edge of space.


Astronomical Photo of the Day


View of the Earh and Moon from the Galileo Spacecraft
Astronomy and Space Trivia:

Why are almost all spacecraft launches done in an Eastward direction?

We all know about a total solar eclipse, and we know that the moon is much smaller than the sun, why is it that the moon covers the sun so well?

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