NASA's Astronomy Picture of the Day for August 1, 2026, featured an image by Branko Nadj captured on July 28 from Krk Island along the coast of Croatia. The image showed a full Buck Moon—a traditional name for the full moon of July—rising over distant mountains above the Adriatic Sea, according to the agency's explanation.

The explanation described Earth's shadow rising as a diffuse gray band above the mountainous southeastern horizon, with the pinkish antitwilight arch known as the Belt of Venus above it. That band is backscattered sunlight. The Moon, Earth's atmospheric shadow and the Belt of Venus shared the eastern horizon in the twilight scene.

According to the explanation, the New Moon of August 12 was expected to cast its own shadow on Earth during a much anticipated total solar eclipse. Image credits were listed to Branko Nadj, with authors and editors Robert Nemiroff, Jerry Bonnell, Cecilia Chirenti and Keighley Rockcliffe.