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at sunset look east not west

as Earth's dark shadow rises from the eastern horizon, faint and subtle colors will appear opposite the setting Sun

this beautiful evening sea and skyscape records the reflective scene from a cruise on the well-traveled Alaskan Inside Passage in the Pacific Northwest

along the horizon the fading sunset gives way to the pinkish anti-twilight arch, more poetically known as the Belt of Venus

often overlooked at sunset in favor of the brighter western horizon, the lovely arch is tinted by filtered sunlight backscattered in the dense atmosphere, hugging the planet's rising blue-grey shadow












































in apod.nasa.gov/apod