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An astronomer has captured in stunning detail an incredibly rare celestial event in which the Moon appears to devour the planet Jupiter.
Rafael Defavari focused his high-powered telescope on the heavens just in time to film the largest planet in our solar system disappear behind the crater strewn lunar surface.
The incredible phenomenon – known as an occultation in which one object is hidden by another object that passes between it and the observer – was only viable from certain parts of the southern hemisphere on Christmas Day.
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