Monday Astronomy Picture Ponderings 5/9/2022

Eclipsing the Sun

Partial Solar Eclipse Oct. 23, 2014 By Tomruen — Own work, CC BY-SA 4.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=36349192

Welcome back to the Monday Astronomy Picture Ponderings (MAPPs) series where every Monday I normally pick one of NASA’s Astronomy Picture of the Day (APOD) entries from the past seven days to focus on in some way.

On May 2nd, 2022, NASA Astronomy Picture of the Day featured a copyrighted image of the partial solar eclipse over…