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[NASA] APOD: 2026 September 3 – The Eclipse and the Stork

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Astronomy Picture of the Day

Discover the cosmos! Each day a different image or photograph of our fascinating universe is featured, along with a brief explanation written by a professional astronomer.

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The Eclipse and the Stork

Explanation: How do animals react to a 

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? The 
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 shows a stork roosting on her nest in Poland at a partial phase of the 
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. If you are lucky enough to experience a total eclipse somewhere quiet and close to nature, you may be able to notice unusual daytime 
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. During totality, you may hear 
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 like crickets and frogs and see 
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. In the dark, most birds are 
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. 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 
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at the end of totality, songbirds greet the new “morning” with their dawn 
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. The crickets and frogs go
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again. Animals and people resume their lifes, only briefly disturbed by the 
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APOD’s main NASA site is 

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Tomorrow’s picture: What’s next?

Date September 3, 2026
Credit & Copyright
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Authors & editors: Cecilia Chirenti, Robert Nemiroff, Jerry Bonnell, Keighley Rockcliffe
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