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  1. grobi @[email protected] ·

    2026 September 3

    The Eclipse and the Stork
    * Image Credit & Copyright: Włodzimierz Bubak
    instagram.com/trzeci_plan/?hl=
    * Text: Cecilia Chirenti (NASA GSFC, UMCP, CRESST II)
    science.gsfc.nasa.gov/sci/bio/

    Explanation:
    How do animals react to a total solar eclipse? The featured image shows a stork roosting on her nest in Poland at a partial phase of the recent total solar eclipse. If you are lucky enough to experience a total eclipse somewhere quiet and close to nature, you may be able to notice unusual daytime animal behaviors. During totality, you may hear nighttime sounds like crickets and frogs and see fireflies. In the dark, most birds are quiet. Thinking that it is time to go to bed, ducks and other waterfowl prepare to sleep on one leg, with their heads turned around and their beaks tucked into their back feathers (they don't really sleep with their heads tucked under one wing). When sunlight returns at the end of totality, songbirds greet the new "morning" with their dawn songs. The crickets and frogs go quiet again. Animals and people resume their lifes, only briefly disturbed by the chance alignment of our Sun and Moon.
    apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap250612.ht
    instagram.com/p/Db9F-0nsklu/
    apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap260813.ht
    fws.gov/story/wildlife-behavio
    youtube.com/watch?v=sJCoF58ailo
    apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap250802.ht
    scientificamerican.com/article
    birds.cornell.edu/k12/do-birds
    apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap240331.ht
    merlin.allaboutbirds.org/the-s
    images.unsplash.com/photo-1566
    images.unsplash.com/photo-1566
    science.nasa.gov/eclipses/
    science.nasa.gov/sun/
    science.nasa.gov/moon/

    apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap260903.ht

    #space #astronomy #astrophotography #photography #eclipse #nature #animals #NASA #apod #space_related #space_culture_Club #apod

    #space #astronomy #astrophotography #photography #eclipse #nature
  2. grobi @[email protected] ·

    2026 September 3

    The Eclipse and the Stork
    * Image Credit & Copyright: Włodzimierz Bubak
    instagram.com/trzeci_plan/?hl=
    * Text: Cecilia Chirenti (NASA GSFC, UMCP, CRESST II)
    science.gsfc.nasa.gov/sci/bio/

    Explanation:
    How do animals react to a total solar eclipse? The featured image shows a stork roosting on her nest in Poland at a partial phase of the recent total solar eclipse. If you are lucky enough to experience a total eclipse somewhere quiet and close to nature, you may be able to notice unusual daytime animal behaviors. During totality, you may hear nighttime sounds like crickets and frogs and see fireflies. In the dark, most birds are quiet. Thinking that it is time to go to bed, ducks and other waterfowl prepare to sleep on one leg, with their heads turned around and their beaks tucked into their back feathers (they don't really sleep with their heads tucked under one wing). When sunlight returns at the end of totality, songbirds greet the new "morning" with their dawn songs. The crickets and frogs go quiet again. Animals and people resume their lifes, only briefly disturbed by the chance alignment of our Sun and Moon.
    apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap250612.ht
    instagram.com/p/Db9F-0nsklu/
    apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap260813.ht
    fws.gov/story/wildlife-behavio
    youtube.com/watch?v=sJCoF58ailo
    apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap250802.ht
    scientificamerican.com/article
    birds.cornell.edu/k12/do-birds
    apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap240331.ht
    merlin.allaboutbirds.org/the-s
    images.unsplash.com/photo-1566
    images.unsplash.com/photo-1566
    science.nasa.gov/eclipses/
    science.nasa.gov/sun/
    science.nasa.gov/moon/

    apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap260903.ht

    #space #astronomy #astrophotography #photography #eclipse #nature #animals #NASA #apod #space_related #space_culture_Club #apod

    #space #astronomy #astrophotography #photography #eclipse #nature
  3. grobi @[email protected] ·

    2026 September 2

    * Image Credit & Copyright: Javier Castro
    instagram.com/fotojaviercastro/
    * Text: Keighley Rockcliffe (NASA GSFC, UMBC CSST, CRESST II)
    kerockcliffe.com/

    Explanation:
    Pretend you have never heard of a solar eclipse. The Sun’s behavior has been predictable your whole life. One day, you witness the sky transform as it does in today’s spliced image spanning two hours of the August 12, 2026 solar eclipse. The Sun disappears, leaving behind a bright, empty ring. What would you think had happened? Humans have interpreted eclipses in countless ways throughout history, embedding beliefs about connection, rebirth, or danger into culture. “Eclipse” comes from the Greek word “ékleipsis” meaning “abandonment”. In ancient Greece, the solar eclipse marked the anger of the gods and the Sun abandoning humanity. To the Diné people, this celestial alignment is a time of renewal. Out of respect and to avoid the danger of sunlight, the Diné stay inside until the Sun and Moon separate. The Batammariba people of Benin and Togo believe that the Sun and Moon fight during an eclipse, so the community encourages peace among themselves. Eclipses are an example of the longstanding connection between astronomy and society.
    instagram.com/p/DcBum3zI7YL/
    apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap260813.ht
    science.nasa.gov/eclipses/hist
    exploratorium.edu/eclipse/ecli
    etymonline.com/word/eclipse
    exploratorium.edu/eclipse/nava
    metmuseum.org/perspectives/sik

    apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap260902.ht

    #space #astronomy #astrophotography #photography #eclipse #nature #NASA #apod #space_related #space_culture_Club #apod

    #space #astronomy #astrophotography #photography #eclipse #nature