Moon

  • Venus and Jupiter team up with the moon to provide late February/March cool show

    This year, Jupiter and Venus, two of the three brightest objects in the night-sky will team up with the brightest, the moon, to provide an incredible show after sunset. If you look west at a clear sky just after dusk you should see them gradually get closer to one...
  • A British man calls the police to report the Moon

    A British man, from Hertfordshire, has dialed 999, the UK equivalent of the better known 911, to report what he thought was a strange, eerie light in the sky. This is believed not to be a prank, the man was all serious and sounded alarmed on the phone (audio from...
  • Pluto shows off newly discovered moon to Hubble

    Astonomers, using the Hubble Space Telescope, have identified a new moon orbiting Pluto, which they’d previously demoted from a planet, to a “dwarf” planet for reasons known only to themselves. The new moon, whose discovery was announced on Monday, has tentatively been named P4.  It’s size is estimated between...
  • As expected, Supermoon is a non-event

    This morning, in my area, the moon hung low, like a testicle. Also low is the residual buzz from the whole Supermoon excitement, after all, according to a leading ASTROLOGER, Richard Nolle, “the Earth was supposed to split in half, and apocalyptically be-swallow us whole!” (For more effect, use...
  • NASA captures partial solar eclipse from space

    While eclipse shots always look interesting, if you have seen one you have pretty much seen them all… until now. NASA’s SDO (Solar Dynamics Observatory) captured these incredible images as their camera was focused on the Sun in a wavelength of extreme ultraviolet light – when the dark Moon...