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A Partial Eclipse Step By Step

On April 25, photographer Tamas Ladanyi took consecutive exposures of the first partial lunar eclipse of the year. Shooting from Tihany, Hungary near Lake Balaton, Ladanyi captured the 27-minute solar event, and it’s beautiful


This Picture Of Saturn’s Moon Is Simply Beautiful

This picture may be simple — monochromatic, a deep black background, and just a hunk fo rock to admire — but it’s also stunningly beautiful. You’re looking at Enceladus, the sixth-largest of the moons of Saturn, as pictured by Cassini.


This Watch Accurately Tracks Moon Phases For 122 Years

Everyone wants to be the centre of the universe, but solipsism doesn’t always mesh well with that whole socialising/respecting other people thing. So keep the truth to yourself and just look at your Arnold & Son’s watch whenever you want to commune with the sky above.


What People In 1836 Thought The Moon Was Like

I wish I could live during a time when we believed creatures and aliens and things lived on the Moon. My imagination would have had so much fun! But alas, real life is too boring for that kind of fun. Still, in 1836, people believed that astronomers had found life on the moon. They imagined a world of hairy men with wings, unicorns and naked insect ladies.


This Time Lapse Turns The Moon Into A Flaming Cannonball

With time-lapse videos often covering periods of several years or more, we’ve been trained to to assume that, translated into real time, their subject is barely moving at a snail’s pace. And this is what makes Dan Maker-Moore’s incredible, 15-second time lapse of the moon rising over Los Angeles all the more astounding — the whole thing was shot in just under half an hour.


The Stories Of Poop Hidden In NASA’s Apollo 10 Mission Transcripts

During NASA’s Apollo 10 moon mission in 1969, not quite everything went to plan. But we’re not talking Apollo 13-style disasters here — instead, we’re talking about some toilet-based issues.


This Fantastic Website Shows How Far Mars Really Is From Earth

This ingenious website made by David Paliwoda shows how far Mars is from Earth in a metric all us internet lovers understand: pixels. If Earth was a 100 pixels wide, how far would Mars be? To start off, the moon would be 3000 pixels away (and 27 pixels wide). Mars?


Buy A Plot Of The Moon From The Man Who Decided To Be Its Landlord

Meet Dennis M. Hope, 65, of Gardnerville, Nevada. Dennis owns the moon. As the New York Times explains, Dennis claims to have filed a declaration of ownership with the United Nations. It’s all legal, guys!


Star Trek Trumps Mythology In Naming Pluto’s New Moon

Due to popular demand, one of Pluto’s recently discovered moons is to be named Vulcan, after the fictional home of Star Trek’s Spock. And that makes no sense.


This Is What The First Lunar Base Could Really Look Like

We have seen many concepts, but this is the most realistic plan yet for humanity’s first Moon Base. It will be more efficient and cheaper to build than any other alternative, as it uses 3D printing to quickly transform raw lunar soil into habitable domes.


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