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.

                                2020 June 14

                    Happy People Dancing on Planet Earth
     Video Credit: Matt Harding & Melissa Nixon; Music: Praan (vocalist:
                     Palbasha Siddique) by Gary Schyman

   Explanation: What are these humans doing? Dancing. Many humans on Earth
   exhibit periods of happiness, and one method of displaying happiness is
   dancing. Happiness and dancing transcend national boundaries and occur
   in practically every human society. Above, Matt Harding traveled
   through many nations on Earth, planned on dancing, and filmed the
   result. The featured video, one in a series of similar videos, is
   perhaps a dramatic example that humans from all over planet Earth feel
   a common bond as part of a single species. Happiness is frequently
   contagious -- few people are able to watch the featured video without
   smiling.

      APOD across world languages: Arabic, Catalan, Chinese (Beijing),
          Chinese (Taiwan), Croatian, Czech, Dutch, Farsi, French,
     French, German, Hebrew, Indonesian, Japanese, Korean, Montenegrin,
         Polish, Russian, Serbian, Slovenian, Spanish and Ukrainian
                       Tomorrow's picture: 25 minus 1
     __________________________________________________________________

       Authors & editors: Robert Nemiroff (MTU) & Jerry Bonnell (UMCP)
            NASA Official: Phillip Newman Specific rights apply.
                NASA Web Privacy Policy and Important Notices
                      A service of: ASD at NASA / GSFC
                             & Michigan Tech. U.

--- hpt/lnx 1.9.0