A blood moon occurs when Earth’s moon is in a total lunar eclipse. It has no special astronomical significance. Nevertheless, the usually whitish moon appears as strikingly red or ruddy-brown in the night sky. The last blood moon occurred on…
Facts About the Moon: Knowledge is power. In this series of articles, we collect fascinating and sometimes unexpected facts about the world around us. We hope you find them not only interesting, but also practically useful. The cosmos is full…
It is an impressive sight when the moon is full and round in the night sky. Many people believe that the full moon affects human behavior and health. Today, esoteric lunar calendar guides fill entire shelves in bookstores. However, there…
Three of them called Archimedes, Galilaei and Kepler. We would have to look for the smallest of them with a magnifying glass. The larger ones are with a diameter of more than 200 kilometers, and we can see them from…
The moon is the brightest celestial body in the night sky. It shines so brightly on full moon nights that some people find it difficult to sleep. It appears as big as the sun and the stars look like tiny…
While the shadow of the moon falls on the earth in a solar eclipse, the reverse is true in a lunar eclipse. The shadow of the earth moves over the moon. Since the earth is larger than the moon, lunar…
The moon is still puzzling us. It is the only natural satellite on Earth and is a hundred times closer to it than the next planet. Until the 1980s, scientists thought the moon was a large asteroid captured by Earth.…
In short: everything will be different! The moon keeps us in balance by stabilizing the fluctuations of the earth’s axis and thus making life on earth possible in the first place. The temperature fluctuations would be considerable and would be…
The answer is a classic yes and no. In general, the moon has an earth-bound orbit, which means we always see the same side. Always and everywhere. While the earth rotates once in 24 hours, the moon moves about 1/30 on its axis. This…
