📷 Kredit: Branko Nadj

Penjelasan

Pada foto yang diambil pada 28 Juli 2026 dari Pulau Krk di pesisir Kroasia, Buck Moon, julukan bagi Bulan purnama Juli kemarin, tampak baru terbit di balik pegunungan di kejauhan. Bulan purnama mungkin sudah cukup sering kamu amati. Pernahkah kamu melihat Sabuk Venus? Tepat di atas Buck Moon pada foto ini, terlihat semburat merah muda yang dikenal sebagai Belt of Venus atau Sabuk Venus, fenomena yang terbentuk dari hamburan cahaya Matahari di atmosfer. Fenomena ini disebut Sabuk Venus karena dianggap mirip dengan sabuk atau selendang merah muda dalam mitologi Yunani dan Romawi kuno yang diasosiasikan dengan Dewi Venus.

Sumber: NASA APOD | 2026-08-01

English: The Buck Moon is a traditional name for the full moon of July. In this colorful Adriatic sea and skyscape captured on July 28 from Krk Island along the coast of Croatia, a full Buck Moon is just rising over distant mountains. Since a full moon rises as the Sun sets, Earth’s shadow also rises in the twilight scene, a diffuse gray band extending above the mountainous southeastern horizon. Above Earth’s shadow band is the pinkish antitwilight arch. That subtly tinted band of backscattered sunlight is more widely known as the Belt of Venus. But as it shares the eastern horizon with the atmospheric shadow of Earth and Belt of Venus, this full Buck Moon seems to set the stage for the New Moon to come. The New Moon of August 12 will cast its shadow on planet Earth in a much anticipated total solar eclipse.