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How Do We Know Moonlight Is Just Reflected Sunlight? (Four Clues, One Ancient Trial And A Rock As Dark As Asphalt)
2+ hour, 54+ min ago (1090+ words) Picture this: a pub quiz. The host asks where moonlight comes from. Every hand in the room goes up. The Moon has no light of its own. It reflects the Sun. Everyone learned this at about age seven. Then the…...
Luna 2: touched by humans, touches the moon
9+ hour, 31+ min ago (561+ words) After another failed launch in June 1959, the Soviets had their second Cosmic Rocket (later renamed Luna 2) ready in September the same year. If the scientists and researchers of the time were just getting on top of the technology that helped…...
On this day in space! Sept. 13, 2007: Japan launches Kaguya spacecraft to the moon to map the lunar surface in HD
17+ hour, 31+ min ago (371+ words) Kaguya, named after a moon princess, captured the first-ever HD video and images of the moon. On Sept. 13, 2007, Japan launched the Kaguya spacecraft on a mission to the moon. Formally known as SELENE, which is short for SELenological and ENgineering…...
On 6 February 1971, Alan Shepard attached a modified six-iron head to a lunar sample-tool handle and hit two golf balls one-handed because his pressurised suit was too stiff for a normal swing. He joked that the second went “miles and miles and miles”; enhanced Apollo photographs analysed in 2021 placed the balls only about 24 and 40 yards away.
23+ hour, 12+ min ago (723+ words) Alan Shepard’s improvised lunar six iron produced two modest shots, then enhanced Apollo imagery finally measured how far the balls travelled....
Space News: ‘Beyond the limit’ — one million satellites and mirrors in space pose grave threat to the night sky - Lake County News,California
1+ day, 1+ hour ago (1014+ words) LAKE COUNTY NEWS REPORTS A recent European Southern Observatory, or ESO, study has found that current proposals to launch over 1.7 million satellites into orbit, including extremely bright ones, would have “devastating consequences for astronomy.” According to the study, no more…...
Researchers narrow possible UV absorbers in Venus’s clouds
23+ hour, 12+ min ago (317+ words) Researchers narrow down possible ultraviolet absorbers in Venus’s clouds UA.NEWS Researchers narrow down possible ultraviolet absorbers in Venus’s clouds An international group of researchers calculated what properties the unknown substance that creates dark patterns in the ultraviolet range in…...
When Einstein Failed, He Questioned: 5 Setbacks Before Changing the Science
1+ day, 1+ hour ago (31+ words) Before he changed science, Albert Einstein was simply a curious young man born on March 14, 1879, in Ulm, Württemberg …...
The Sun’s Biggest Sunspots Could Unleash Superflares, Study Finds
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Giant Sunspots Reveal The Sun’s Potential To Unleash Superflares
2+ day, 10+ hour ago (903+ words) New research suggests that giant sunspots may give the Sun the ability to produce rare and powerful superflares. New research suggests that the Sun may be capable of producing rare superflares, extreme eruptions that could release energy far beyond the…...
Cosmic Concerts return to the Science Center
3+ day, 13+ hour ago (144+ words) Cosmic Concerts will be hosted in the recently completed Dome by Dr. Phillips Charities. (COURTESY OF THE ORLANDO SCIENCE CENTER) Cosmic Concerts are returning this September 12 to the Orlando Science Center in the Dome. The $15 laser light shows will return…...