time travel, parallel universes, and other useful illusions
Ladies and gentlemen, once again we have an important matter to discuss. On today’s menu: the top secret alien moon base. You heard right. During the Apollo 11 mission on July 20, 1969, as Neil Armstrong became the first human to step foot on the moon, audiences around the world were captivated. “One small step for …
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Good riddance, 2014. You sucked. Nobody liked you. 2015 is my new best friend, so pack your bags and go stay at a hotel or something. In fact, here’s some of the cool stuff 2015 and I will be doing while you’re gone.
Tonight marks the first in a series of four total lunar eclipses that will occur from now until the end of next year. It’s called a lunar eclipse tetrad, which is a term for when the moon passes through the Earth’s shadow, causing a total lunar eclipse, four times in a row. All four eclipses …
So, do you remember when I wrote about NASA’s Gravity Recovery and Interior Laboratory, aka the GRAIL mission? Back in February, its twin probes, Ebb & Flow (named by fourth graders at Emily Dickinson Elementary School, no less), gave us a fascinating look at the moon’s oft-unseen far side. Yeah, well…now we’re gonna crash those …
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Last week we celebrated the 40th Anniversary of Apollo 17, NASA’s final manned mission to the moon. As Neil deGrasse Tyson has said: “Our space program would look awesome to anyone living backwards through time.” That may change in the not-so-distant future, though, thanks to a number of private enterprises hoping to turn spaceflight into the 21st …
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Last month, a British police officer was on night duty, patrolling the streets in Worcestershire, central England, when he came upon something rather peculiar: a “suspicious bright light” emanating from the other side of the Clent Hills. He immediately called his sergeant. He was going to investigate those hills, he told him, and uncover the …
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Supermoons happen once a year, when a full moon “coincides with the moon’s closest approach to Earth.” This year, we get to see it on Saturday, May 5 at 11: 35 p.m. EDT. Be prepared. Bonus fact: The technical term for a “supermoon” is the perigree-syzygy. It won’t be hard to miss, either, because the …
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I’d tell you that’s an extraterrestrial orb, but it’s really just the moon. These photos (which aren’t particularly great) were taken on the morning of February 9, 2012. I’d just randomly decided to head outside and noticed the very bright off-color, yellow/red “star” near the moon (you can see it in the pictures through the …
China has released a composite image of the entire moon, the highest resolution map ever created. The composite images were taken by the Chang’e-2 Lunar Orbiter. We’ve seen higher resolution images of areas on the moon before, but this is probably the best full image to date. According to PhysOrg.com: In fact the maps are …
Every month, when the full moon rises, we hear the stories: police departments receive strange phone calls, nurses have to deal with hyperactive patients. All the “crazies” come out, they say. Even the words lunacy and lunatic find their origins tied to the moon. But is there any truth to the madness caused by our …
