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Blue Moon Though the term is often used metaphorically to describe a rare event, a "blue moon" is actually, in astronomical terms, the second full moon within a calendar month or the third full moon in a three-month calendrical season that has four full moons. While most years have 12 full moons that occur approximately once a month, each solar year has ...
Earth May Have Once Had Two Moons A new theory suggests that Earth once had a second, smaller moon that was destroyed in a collision with its larger counterpart. This second moon would have been about 750 miles wide and could have formed from the same collision between Earth and a Mars-sized object that scientists suspect led to the formation of the Moon we know today. A ...
Publishes "The Great Moon Hoax" (1835) "The Great Moon Hoax" was a series of six New York Sun articles discussing the supposed discovery of life on the Moon. The discovery—allegedly made using a massive telescope—was falsely attributed to famed astronomer Sir John Herschel. In the articles, the author claims that unicorns, bipedal beavers, bat-like humanoids, and other fantastic animals inhabit a forest- and ocean-covered Moon. The ...
Poem of the day – CHILD MOON by Carl Sandburg THE child's wonderAt the old moonComes back nightly.She points her fingerTo the far silent yellow thingShining through the branchesFiltering on the leaves a golden sand,Crying with her little tongue, See the moon!And in her bed fading to sleepWith babblings of the moon on her little mouth. - CHILD MOON by Carl Sandburg
Woman in the Moon One of the first serious science fiction movies, Fritz Lang's Woman in the Moon was made with advice from some of Germany's leading rocketry experts. The silent film blends science and melodrama, resulting in a tragic love triangle on a lunar expedition. Created 40 years before the lunar landing, it showed humans breathing unaided on the surface of the moon ...