May 23
I noticed that this article
Apr 16
Think of all the power it takes to light up empty parking lots at night. Think of how annoying it can be when the sun goes down, yet you didn’t finish all your work for the day. Think of how great it would be if we could just extend daytime, reduce the cost of lighting up all those empty streets and garages, and keep our cities as excessively illuminated as they already are today. We should just brighten the moon.
Apr 15
For the first time in history, scientists are witnessing the formation of a new moon in our solar system. NASA’s Cassini spacecraft has detected a new moon forming in the edge of Saturn’s rings. Astronomers around the world are amazed about this incredible find, which they have named Peggy.*
Apr 04
Vsauce’s Michael Stevens answers a great question with the help of Yeti Dynamics: What if the moon was a disco ball? The answer is sad: The mirrors’ specular surface would make the moon almost invisible. However, things really get groovy if you put the disco moon at the same distance as the International Space Station.
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Mar 18
Over the past four years the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) was busy collecting photographs… 10,581 to be exact. And it was all for you! So you could explore the moon at a dazzling resolution of six feet per pixel—your tax dollars at work
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Mar 05
This is amazing news: NASA is sending a mission to Europa! If everything goes well, a robotic submarine may be landing on Jupiter’s moon—the world that scientists believe is the most likely to contain life in the Solar System—by 2030, a real space odyssey. This has the potential to change the world.
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Feb 24
One Moon "day" is approximately 29 1/2 Earth days. This rotation coincides with its orbit around the Earth so that we only see about 59% of the surface of the Moon from Earth. When the Moon first formed, its rotational speed and orbit were very different than they are now. Over time, the Earth’s gravitational field gradually slowed the Moon’s rotation until the orbital period and the rotational speed stabilized, making one side of the Moon always face the Earth.
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Feb 24
Koichi Wakata—a Japanese astronaut now on board the International Space Station—just shared this incredible photo of the "Moon setting on the blue Earth atmosphere." He just snapped these two awesome shots of auroras over Australia.
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Feb 06
There is nothing quite like a clear night sky for one to look up to, seeing all of the stars coming out to dance across the pitch black canopy. Twice a month (more or less in that manner), the full moon would come out to play, where it would illuminate the entire landscape with its soft and shimmering light which lends an air of romance to it all. However, we mortals have no control over the weather, but what happens when you have something like the €22.49 Remote Control Illuminated Moon to give you some semblance of supernatural power?
The Remote Control Illuminated Moon comes across as an authentically detailed model of the moon by Brainstorm, where it has been specially designed to hang easily on your wall in the same vein as that of a picture. This particularly realistic moonscape would be able to shine moonlight just like the real deal, where the remote control is able to automatically scroll through the dozen illuminated lunar phases, or you can opt to use the manual function to set your own moon phase. A quartet of AA batteries will power this faux moon. I wonder if this will help lycanthropes turn on their own…
[ Remote Control Illuminated Moon ensures no clouds will spoil your night copyright by Coolest Gadgets ]
Feb 03
At last, a good panorama from China’s Chang’e 3 lander. It shows a three-step time-lapse of the Jade Rabbit robotic rover heading south, getting away from its mothership "likely never to return again." Zoom in:
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