January 28, 2018
January 28, 2018
Astronomy Picture of the Day
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2018 January 28
Video Credit & Copyright: Jean-Luc Dauvergne (Ciel et Espace); Music: Val�re Leroy & Sophie Huet (Space-Music)
Explanation: If the full Moon suddenly faded, what would you see? The answer during the total lunar eclipse in 2011 was recorded in a dramatic time lapse video from Tajikistan. During a total lunar eclipse, the Earth moves between the Moon and the Sun, causing the moon to fade dramatically. The Moon never gets completely dark, though, since the Earth's atmosphere refracts some light. As the featured video begins, the scene may appear to be daytime and sunlit, but actually it is a nighttime and lit by the glow of the full Moon. As the Moon becomes eclipsed and fades, the wind dies down and background stars can be seen reflected in foreground lake. Most spectacularly, the sky surrounding the eclipsed moon suddenly appears to be full of stars and highlighted by the busy plane of our Milky Way Galaxy. The sequence repeats with a closer view, and the final image shows the placement of the eclipsed Moon near the Eagle, Swan, Trifid, and Lagoon nebulas. Nearly two hours after the eclipse started, the moon emerges from the Earth's shadow and its bright full glare again dominates the sky. This Wednesday another total lunar eclipse will take place -- but this one will be during a rareSuper Blue Blood Moon.
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PHOTOS: The day in pictures January 28, 2018
In this photo taken on Saturday, Jan. 27, 2018 people on a partially submerged dinghy boat ask for help in the Mediterranean Sea. Some 800 migrants and two bodies were recovered in the Central Mediterranean Sea on Saturday, the Italian coast guard said.They were spotted in five boats, including two rubber dinghies, and 83 of them were picked up by the NGO Sos Mediterranee's ship 'Aquarius', that took aboard the two dead women as well.
Graphic content / A truck carrying a family, wounded following a Turkish airstrike on a village in the Afrin district, arrives on January 28, 2018, at the Afrin hospital.Turkey launched operation "Olive Branch" on January 20 against the Syrian Kurdish People's Protection Units (YPG) militia in Afrin, supporting Syrian opposition fighters with ground troops and air strikes. / AFP PHOTO / George OURFALIANGEORGE OURFALIAN/AFP/Getty Images
A picture taken on January 28, 2018, from the city of Afrin shows smoke billowing following a Turkish airstrike on a village in the Afrin district. Turkey launched operation "Olive Branch" on January 20 against the Syrian Kurdish People's Protection Units (YPG) militia in Afrin, supporting Syrian opposition fighters with ground troops and air strikes. / AFP PHOTO / George OURFALIANGEORGE OURFALIAN/AFP/Getty Images
The wife of Fatih Mehmethan, a Turkish soldier killed in cross-border clashes with Kurdish People's Protection Units (YPG) forces in Afrin, reacts over his Turkish flag-draped coffin during a funeral ceremony at 15 Temmuz Sehitler Mosque in Istanbul on January 28, 2018. Turkey launched operation "Olive Branch" on January 20 against the Syrian Kurdish People's Protection Units (YPG) in Afrin, supporting Syrian opposition fighters with ground troops and air strikes. / AFP PHOTO / YASIN AKGULYASIN AKGUL/AFP/Getty Images
A Syrian Kurdish fighter walks in the town of Rajo in the Afrin District on January 27, 2018. Turkish troops and tanks entered northern Syria on January 21 in an offensive aimed at ousting the Kurdish Peoples' Protection Units (YPG), which Ankara considers a terror group, from the Afrin region bordering Turkey. / AFP PHOTO / STRINGERSTRINGER/AFP/Getty Images
Family members bid farewell to soldiers on a bus as they are dispatched to the border with Syria, at Hassa, near Hatay, southern Turkey on January 28, 2018. Authorities in Syria's Kurdish autonomous region said on January 28 they would not attend peace talks in Russia's Sochi next week because of Turkey's offensive against the Kurdish enclave of Afrin. / AFP PHOTO / OZAN KOSEOZAN KOSE/AFP/Getty Images
Smoke rises following a reported air strike in the rebel-held Syrian town of Mudayra, in the Eastern Ghouta region on the outskirts of Damascus, on January 28, 2018. / AFP PHOTO / ABDULMONAM EASSAABDULMONAM EASSA/AFP/Getty Images
A woman gestures in front of riot police during a rally calling for a boycott of March 18 presidential elections, Saint Petersburg, January 28, 2018. / AFP PHOTO / OLGA MALTSEVAOLGA MALTSEVA/AFP/Getty Images
A man gestures during an opposition rally calling for a boycott of March 18 presidential elections, Moscow, January 28, 2018. / AFP PHOTO / Mladen ANTONOVMLADEN ANTONOV/AFP/Getty Images
Supporters of opposition leader Alexei Navalny take part in a rally calling for a boycott of March 18 presidential elections, in Moscow, January 28, 2018. / AFP PHOTO / Mladen ANTONOVMLADEN ANTONOV/AFP/Getty Images
A still image taken from an AFPTV footage shows police officers detaining opposition leader Alexei Navalny during a rally calling for a boycott of March 18 presidential elections, Moscow, January 28, 2018. / AFP PHOTO / Alexandra DalsbaekALEXANDRA DALSBAEK/AFP/Getty Images
Palestinian children hold bread patties during a protest against aid cuts, outside the United Nations' offices in Khan Yunis in the southern Gaza Strip on January 28, 2018. On January 16, Washington held back $65 million that had been earmarked for the UN relief agency for Palestinian refugees, UNRWA. / AFP PHOTO / SAID KHATIBSAID KHATIB/AFP/Getty Images
A Palestinian student from the Balata refugee camp near Nablus in the Israeli occupied West Bank protests against the reduction of the services of the UN agency and against US President's decision to cut aid, on January 28, 2018. The agency provides Palestinian refugees and their descendants across the Middle East with services including schools and medical care, but Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has long accused it of hostility toward Israel and called for its closure. / AFP PHOTO / Jaafar ASHTIYEHJAAFAR ASHTIYEH/AFP/Getty Images
A Palestinian woman sits on a pile of food donations at a United Nations food distribution centre in Khan Yunis in the southern Gaza Strip on January 28, 2018. On January 16, Washington held back $65 million that had been earmarked for the UN relief agency for Palestinian refugees, UNRWA. / AFP PHOTO / SAID KHATIBSAID KHATIB/AFP/Getty Images
A medical personnel stands in front of a ward of a Cholera Treatment Centre, funded by the Unicef, Malawi Red Cross and UK Aid, at Bwaila Hospital in the capital Lilongwe, Malawi, January 25, 2018. Malawi has been facing a cholera outbreak since late 2017 and UNICEF Malawi is making efforts to contain the outbreak. / AFP PHOTO / AMOS GUMULIRAAMOS GUMULIRA/AFP/Getty Images
Children lay roses at the Holocaust Memorial in Thessaloniki on January 28, 2018, during a ceremony commemorating the persecution of the Jewish people during World War II. Of 65,000 Greek Jews that fell victim to Nazism, 50,000 were citizens of Thessaloniki and almost 45,000 perished at the Auschwitz concentration camp. Greece officially commemorates the Holocaust every January. / AFP PHOTO / SAKIS MITROLIDISSAKIS MITROLIDIS/AFP/Getty Images
Georgian-born sumo wrestler Tochinoshin (L) pushes Endo (R) of Japan out of the ring on the last day of the 15-day New Year's Grand Sumo tournament in Tokyo on January 28, 2018.A day after clinching his first championship, Tochinoshin finished the tourney by dispatching fan-favorite Endo and finishing with a 14-1 record. / AFP PHOTO / JIJI PRESS / STR / Japan OUTSTR/AFP/Getty Images
A singer displays an outfit of Spanish designer Ion Fiz' Fall/Winter 2018/2019 collection during the Madrid's Mercedes Benz Fashion Week, on January 28, 2018 in Madrid. / AFP PHOTO / PIERRE-PHILIPPE MARCOUPIERRE-PHILIPPE MARCOU/AFP/Getty Images
Masked revellers wearing traditional carnival costumes stand in St Mark Square during Venice's Carnival on January 28, 2018. / AFP PHOTO / FILIPPO MONTEFORTEFILIPPO MONTEFORTE/AFP/Getty Images
A masked reveller wearing a traditional carnival costume poses in St Mark Square during Venice's Carnival on January 28, 2018. / AFP PHOTO / FILIPPO MONTEFORTEFILIPPO MONTEFORTE/AFP/Getty Images
A masked reveller wearing a traditional carnival costume stands in St Mark Square during Venice's Carnival on January 28, 2018. / AFP PHOTO / FILIPPO MONTEFORTEFILIPPO MONTEFORTE/AFP/Getty Images
Gerald Herbert, The Associated Press
Jack Spittler III waits as his costume is adjusted before the start of the Little Rascals Mardi Gras Ball in Kenner, La., Thursday, Jan. 25, 2018. The weeks-long celebration leading up to Fat Tuesday is often perceived as an adults-only holiday in the French Quarter’s famed Bourbon Street festivities. But elsewhere, children and families are as much a part of the revelry as anyone.
Gerald Herbert, The Associated Press
The ladies in waiting of the royal court of the Krewe of Little Rascals walk for the audience during their Mardi Gras Ball in Kenner, La., Thursday, Jan. 25, 2018. The more than 200 kids riding in Sunday’s Mardi Gras parade participated in a glitzy ball held in their honor.
Dancers, known as "Kukeri", perform on January 28, 2018 during the International Festival of the Masquerade Games in Pernik, near Sofia.The three-day festival, which started on January 26, has participants sporting multi-colored masks, covered with beads, ribbons and woolen tassels while the main dancer, ladened with bells to drive away sickness and evil spirits, sways like a wheat spikelet heavy with grain. / AFP PHOTO / NIKOLAY DOYCHINOVNIKOLAY DOYCHINOV/AFP/Getty Images
Indian members of a brass band waits on the road prior to performing at a wedding in New Delhi on January 28, 2018. / AFP PHOTO / SAJJAD HUSSAINSAJJAD HUSSAIN/AFP/Getty Images
Fareed Khan, The Associated Press
A Pakistani Hindu groom in traditional attire, waits for the start of a mass wedding ceremony in Karachi, Pakistan, Sunday, Jan. 28, 2018. The Pakistan Hindu Council organized a mass marriage ceremony for 82 couples who could not afford their individual wedding expenses.
An Indonesian woman traditional archer Dhanisa Restya Agung poses for a photograph during an International traditional archery festival at Seri Menanti in Negeri Sembilan, about 90kms of Kuala Lumpur on January 28, 2018. / AFP PHOTO / MANAN VATSYAYANAMANAN VATSYAYANA/AFP/Getty Images
This photograph taken on January 27, 2018 shows Bayartsetseg Yambiidonchiir (C), a traditional woman archer from Mongolia taking part in an International traditional archery festival at Seri Menanti in Negeri Sembilan, about 90kms of Kuala Lumpur. / AFP PHOTO / MANAN VATSYAYANAMANAN VATSYAYANA/AFP/Getty Images
A Pakistani Hindu groom poses at a mass wedding ceremony in Karachi on January 28, 2018. The 10th Annual Hindu Combined Marriages Ceremony with 83 couples organised by the Pakistan Hindu Council. / AFP PHOTO / RIZWAN TABASSUMRIZWAN TABASSUM/AFP/Getty Images
Michael Probst, The Associated Press
A visitor takes a look a Christmas decoration at the "Christmas World" fair taking place until Monday in Frankfurt, Germany, Sunday, Jan. 28, 2018.
Christophe Ena, The Associated Press
A flooded street lamp and signboards are pictured next to the river Seine in Parison the river Seine in Paris, Saturday, Jan. 27, 2018. Floodwaters were nearing their peak in Paris on Saturday, with the rain-swollen Seine River engulfing scenic quays and threatening wine cellars and museum basements. The Eiffel tower is seen background.
An aerial view taken with a drone in Moscow on January 27, 2018 shows a star on top of the Moscow State University, Luzhniki Stadium and the Moskva River. / AFP PHOTO / Dmitry SEREBRYAKOVDMITRY SEREBRYAKOV/AFP/Getty Images
A seagull flies over the Eminonu district of Istanbul on January 27, 2018 with the Galata Tower (C) in backround / AFP PHOTO / YASIN AKGULYASIN AKGUL/AFP/Getty Images
A man feeds seagulls in the Eminonu district in Istanbul on January 27, 2018. / AFP PHOTO / YASIN AKGULYASIN AKGUL/AFP/Getty Images
A fisherman checks his mobile phone as he warms up by a brazier on Galata Bridge in the Eminonu District of Istanbul on January 27, 2018. / AFP PHOTO / YASIN AKGULYASIN AKGUL/AFP/Getty Images
Efrem Lukatsky, The Associated Press
Volunteers of the right-wing paramilitary Azov Civil Corps carry their standard as they march along a fire path under a heavy snowfall at a swearing-allegiance ceremony in the yard of an old city fortress in central Kiev, Ukraine, Sunday, Jan. 28, 2018. Apart from combat activity in Ukraine's war-hit east, Azov volunteers fight crime and drugs, patrol streets, and help people in case of emergency.
People watch a fireworks show during the Military historical reconstruction of the Leningrad Victory salute of 1944 in Saint Petersburg, on January 27, 2018. Russia on January 27 marked the 74th anniversary of the complete liberation of Leningrad (today Saint Petersburg) from the Nazi military blockade during the Second World War and on January 18 the 75th anniversary of the breakthrough of the Siege of Leningrad. / AFP PHOTO / OLGA MALTSEVAOLGA MALTSEVA/AFP/Getty Images
Skiers are seen in silhouette on a ski lift as the sun rises next the resort of Lenzerheide, eastern Switzerland, on January 28, 2018. / AFP PHOTO / Fabrice COFFRINIFABRICE COFFRINI/AFP/Getty Images
Eric Talmadge, The Associated Press
A mother and her daughter take a rest on the slopes at the Masik Pass ski resort in North Korea Sunday, Jan. 28, 2018. The ski resort, built in 2013 at the order of North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, is to be the site of joint training for North and South Korean skiers ahead of the Pyeongchang Olympics.
An Iranian man walks with a child amid the snow in the capital Tehran on January 28, 2018. Some 20 provinces in the west and north of Iran were affected by the snowfall that began on Thursday and peaked on Saturday night, with some mountainous areas receiving as much 1.3 metres (more than four feet) of snow according to official news agency IRNA. / AFP PHOTO / ATTA KENAREATTA KENARE/AFP/Getty Images
Iranians walk amid the snow in the capital Tehran on January 28, 2018. Some 20 provinces in the west and north of Iran were affected by the snowfall that began on Thursday and peaked on Saturday night, with some mountainous areas receiving as much 1.3 metres (more than four feet) of snow according to official news agency IRNA. / AFP PHOTO / ATTA KENAREATTA KENARE/AFP/Getty Images
This photo taken on January 27, 2018 shows farmer Jay Balindang tending to his water buffalo under heavy rains in a rice field at the foot of the Mayon volcano in the town of Guinobatan in Albay province. Balindang is among nearly 10,000 farmers who have been affected by the eruption of Mayon volcano that began earlier this month. / AFP PHOTO / TED ALJIBETED ALJIBE/AFP/Getty Images
Syrians make their way through heavy fog in the rebel-held town of Mudayra, in the Eastern Ghouta region on the outskirts of Damascus, on January 28, 2018. / AFP PHOTO / ABDULMONAM EASSAABDULMONAM EASSA/AFP/Getty Images
Pope Francis celebrates the Eucharist during a mass at St Mary Major basilica (Santa Maria Maggiore), on January 28, 2018 in Rome. / AFP PHOTO / Andreas SOLAROANDREAS SOLARO/AFP/Getty Images
Petros Karadjias, The Associated Press
An elderly woman casts her ballot during the presidential elections in Nicosia, on Sunday, Jan. 28, 2018. Cypriots are voting for a new president they hope will overcome years of failure to resolve the island-nation's ethnic division and deliver more benefits from an economy on the rebound after a severe financial crisis.
In this picture taken on January 14, 2018, Sky Brown does a roll in as she drops from the top of a bus with her name sprayed on it in Takanabe town, Miyazaki prefecture. Nine-year-old Sky Brown has set her sights on Tokyo 2020, when the hipster sport makes its Olympic bow, along with surfing, karate and sports climbing. / AFP PHOTO / Behrouz MEHRI / TO GO WITH AFP STORY OLY-2020-SKATEBOARDING-JPN,FEATURE BY ALASTAIR HIMMERBEHROUZ MEHRI/AFP/Getty Images
Geoffroy Van Der Hasselt, AFP/Getty Images
Waving US flags, bikers gets ready to parade on their Harley Davidsons motorbikes prior to the Grand Prix d'Amerique horseracing event on Jan. 28, 2018 at the Vincennes Hippodrome de Paris, in Paris.
January 2018 Calendar
City
Date | Sunrise | Sunset | Length of day |
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January 1, 2018 | 7:20 | 16:39 | 9h 19m |
January 2, 2018 | 7:20 | 16:40 | 9h 20m |
January 3, 2018 | 7:20 | 16:41 | 9h 21m |
January 4, 2018 | 7:20 | 16:42 | 9h 22m |
January 5, 2018 | 7:20 | 16:43 | 9h 23m |
January 6, 2018 | 7:20 | 16:44 | 9h 24m |
January 7, 2018 | 7:20 | 16:45 | 9h 25m |
January 8, 2018 | 7:20 | 16:46 | 9h 26m |
January 9, 2018 | 7:20 | 16:47 | 9h 27m |
January 10, 2018 | 7:20 | 16:48 | 9h 28m |
January 11, 2018 | 7:20 | 16:49 | 9h 29m |
January 12, 2018 | 7:19 | 16:50 | 9h 31m |
January 13, 2018 | 7:19 | 16:51 | 9h 32m |
January 14, 2018 | 7:19 | 16:52 | 9h 33m |
January 15, 2018 | 7:18 | 16:53 | 9h 35m |
January 16, 2018 | 7:18 | 16:54 | 9h 36m |
January 17, 2018 | 7:17 | 16:55 | 9h 38m |
January 18, 2018 | 7:17 | 16:57 | 9h 40m |
January 19, 2018 | 7:16 | 16:58 | 9h 42m |
January 20, 2018 | 7:16 | 16:59 | 9h 43m |
January 21, 2018 | 7:15 | 17:00 | 9h 45m |
January 22, 2018 | 7:15 | 17:01 | 9h 46m |
January 23, 2018 | 7:14 | 17:03 | 9h 49m |
January 24, 2018 | 7:13 | 17:04 | 9h 51m |
January 25, 2018 | 7:12 | 17:05 | 9h 53m |
January 26, 2018 | 7:12 | 17:06 | 9h 54m |
January 27, 2018 | 7:11 | 17:07 | 9h 56m |
January 28, 2018 | 7:10 | 17:09 | 9h 59m |
January 29, 2018 | 7:09 | 17:10 | 10h 1m |
January 30, 2018 | 7:08 | 17:11 | 10h 3m |
January 31, 2018 | 7:07 | 17:12 | 10h 5m |
The sunrise and sunset are calculated from New York. All the times in the January 2018 calendar may differ when you eg live east or west in the United States. To see the sunrise and sunset in your region select a city above this list.
See also the position of the moon, check the Moon calendar 2018.
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