Sunset on the Moon

Lunar horizon glow, as captured by the Blue Ghost lander. Photograph: Nasa/Firefly Aerospace 

 Nasa has released the first high-definition images of a sunset on the moon, two striking photographs taken by the private lander Blue Ghost that could offer scientists further clues to the mysterious phenomenon known as lunar horizon glow.

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Pink Moon

The Pink Moon, illuminated at 99%, rises behind the Statue of Liberty as the sun sets in New York City. Photo by Gary Hershorn. 

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Paris’s Arc de Triomphe Perfectly Frames a Glowing Full Moon in a Stunning Photo by Stefano Zanarello

On a recent trip to Paris with his family, Italian photographer Stefano Zanarello traveled to the iconic Arc de Triomphe on an evening with a bright full moon.

 With a bustling street below, Zanarello waited about 1,300 meters from the famed monument, speculating that the celestial body would pass through the cloudless night sky and precisely position itself with the architectural aperture.

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Galileo Sketched the Moon as He Saw It Through His Telescope in 1609

Galileo Galilei sketched the Moon from his own observations through his handmade telescope in the early 17th century.

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Moon’s Movement

Astrophotographer Andrew McCarthy gives us a look at how he created a gif of the Moon's libration. He also produced an incredible image with every frame captured during his month following the Moon.

 

Epic GIF

Twice a year, DSCOVR satellite's camera EPIC captures the Moon transiting Earth. 

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Wolf Moon

Skywatchers around the world have been treated to the first full Moon of 2022. 

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The subtle influence of the Moon on Earth's weather

"Pale Moon rains. Red Moon blows. White Moon neither rains nor snows." For generations, people have watched the Moon for signs of changes in the weather. 

The Moon does, in fact, affect the Earth's weather patterns in several subtle ways.

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The first full moon of the year in Tirana, Albania.

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Incredible Image of Mars Peeking Out From Behind the Moon

Andrew McCarthy’s incredible photograph shows Mars appearing just after being covered by the Moon.

 

"That's one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind."

During their nine days in space, the astronauts aboard Apollo 11 took some of the world’s most famous – and beautiful – photographs.

 

Why do so many people think Apollo 11 was fake?

Scores of people around the world believe the landings were staged by Nasa to boost America's prestige on a global scale, while many claim they never happened at all. One of the more popular theories suggests that the six landings between 1969 and 1972 were faked, and that the 12 astronauts who walked on the moon never actually stepped foot on it.
 This week marks five decades since man first landed on the moon - take a look at the conspiracy theories that many still believe to this day. 

Margaret Hamilton

Photograph credit: Draper Laboratory; restored by Adam Cuerden 

 Margaret Hamilton (born 1936) is an American computer scientist, systems engineer and business owner. She was director of the Software Engineering Division of the MIT Instrumentation Laboratory, which developed on-board flight software for NASA's Apollo space program.
 In 1986, she founded Hamilton Technologies, Inc., in Cambridge, Massachusetts. The company was developed around Universal Systems Language, based on her paradigm of "Development Before the Fact" for systems and software design. Hamilton has published over 130 papers, proceedings and reports about sixty projects and six major programs. She is one of the people credited with coining the term "software engineering". In 2016, she received the Presidential Medal of Freedom from President Barack Obama for her work leading to the development of on-board flight software for NASA's Apollo missions.
 This picture, taken in 1969, shows Hamilton standing next to listings of the navigation software that she and her team at MIT produced for the Apollo project.
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Blue Moon

Amazon entrepreneur Jeff Bezos has unveiled a mock-up of a new lunar lander spacecraft that aims to take equipment and humans to the Moon by 2024.
 The unmanned, reusable Blue Moon vehicle will carry scientific instruments, satellites and rovers.
 It will feature a new rocket engine called BE-7 that can blast 10,000 pounds (4,535 kg) of thrust.
 "It's time to go back to the Moon, this time to stay," said Mr Bezos.
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Super blood wolf moon

Thousands have endured sub-zero temperatures in US and parts of Europe to see rare celestial event. more

 

China probe makes historic touchdown on far side of the moon

A Chinese spacecraft has become the first ever to land on the far side of the moon, according to state-run media, in a giant leap for human space exploration.
 The China National Space Administration (CNSA) landed the robotic probe Chang’e 4 in the unexplored South Pole-Aitken basin, the largest, oldest, deepest, crater on the moon’s surface.
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To The Moon And Back

This 100-megapixel moon photograph is a mosaic of NASA images from the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter, and a quick zoom shows the incredible detail of its surface.

 

This Photo Captured the First View of Earth From the Moon

What does Earth look like? For millennia, humans could only speculate on their planet’s appearance. But 50 years ago today, that changed when a NASA spacecraft captured the first-ever photograph of Earth from the moon. If you think the photo was the ubiquitous “blue marble”-style photograph, think again—that photo wasn’t taken until Apollo 17 traveled toward the moon in 1972.
 Though the photo eventually became one of the most-used images in history, it wasn’t the first to show Earth from deep space. That honor went to the black-and-white image you see above.
The photo was taken by NASA’s Lunar Orbiter 1 in 1966.

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Why Earth often has two moons

Watch the video here to discover the second moon Earth had in 2006, and why our planet might have them a lot of the time.