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'4 Moons' spotted over Russia
short by Ankush Verma / on Sunday, 1 February, 2026
Four Moons were spotted over Russia's St Petersburg in an atmospheric optical phenomenon called paraselene. This occurs when light from the real Moon is refracted by flat ice crystals high in the atmosphere above the Earth. Earlier, a video showed what looked like three Suns rising in Russia's Murmansk region, which happened due to an optical illusion termed 'Solar gala'.
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