Our Beautiful, Wet Blue Moon in the News

[Gerald]

Halloween will be the first blue moon visible in every time zone since 1944. Might be good to charge those crystals!

The moon remains, perpetually and since antiquity, a source of cultural wonder. Last week, when https://www.nasa.gov/press-release/n...lts-about-moon that it would reveal “an exciting new discovery” about the moon in a matter of days, the internet, thirsty for distraction, went wild speculating about it. (It happened to be exciting news for space scientists —water and ice on the moon https://www.nytimes.com/2020/10/26/s...ice-water.html than previously thought — but not the supernatural or extraterrestrial news many yearned for.)

Moon updates have been plentiful this year. In August, scientists reported they had https://www.nytimes.com/2020/08/15/s...sers-dust.html that was gliding over the moon’s surface at thousands of miles per hour in order to measure distance between our moon and planet. (It worked.) In February, two astronomers discovered a https://www.nytimes.com/2020/02/27/s...oon-earth.html orbiting Earth.

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/10/29/s...-moon-wet.html





Note: Published Oct. 29, 2020
Updated Oct. 30, 2020

Beautiful sight!