What Is a Blood Moon?
A blood moon is a total lunar eclipse, the moment when the Moon moves entirely into Earth’s darkest shadow and…
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Venus’s ‘Lost Moon’ returns in headlines, not the sky
On crisp evenings in the 1700s, respected astronomers pointed small refractors at a glaring white lantern in the west and…
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The Gigamoon reveals the Moon in astonishing detail
You think you know the Moon until a billion-plus pixels stare back. In Andrew McCarthy’s colossal 1.3-gigapixel mosaic, every wrinkle,…
