If you could only see all the places, meet all the people, taste all the foods… but it’s impossible. In preparation for the new moon, stretch your imagination into more possibilities than you’ve already considered. If you could only do one incredible thing, what would it be? Start there, and then follow up with the question “What would top it?”
ARIES (March 21-April 19). What you do to keep your core self strong — be it exercise, meditation, spiritual work or other practices — is important to keep up with no matter what else is going on in the world.
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The Night The Moon Exploded
A crescent moon dwarfs the lights of Fort Riley Army Base in central Kansas as it sets Monday, Jan. ... [+] 22, 2007. (AP Photo/Charlie Riedel)
About an hour after sunset on June 18, 1178, the Moon exploded. That's what it looked like to five terrified, awestruck monks watching the skies over the abbey at Canterbury, in southeastern England, anyway.
The Moon was a pale, shining crescent in the skies over England that night, and the monks said it looked like the upper horn of the crescent split in half, and "from the midpoint of the division a flaming torch sprang up, spewing out, over a considerable distance, fire, hot coals and sparks."
Watch The Moon 'Eating' Venus On Friday Morning As Mercury Reverses
BAYONNE, NJ - JULY 15: A crescent moon and the planet Venus set behind an American flag at sunset on ... [+] July 15, 2018 in Bayonne, New Jersey. (Photo by Gary Hershorn/Getty Images)
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With Mercury dealt with, let's get on with Venus, whose occultation by a crescent Moon is much more exciting. A 4%-lit waning gibbous crescent Moon did, for a short time, cover bright planet Venus, which itself was an 8%-lit crescent.
Venus vanished behind the Moon's bright limb and re-appear from behind its darkened limb. However, it was only technically (not easily) visible from North America and Europe since it was going on in daylight above the east-northeastern horizon.
Kathy Lueders, NASA's 1st female spaceflight chief, will guide a US return to the moon | Space
The first woman to be in charge of NASA's human spaceflight program will oversee the first mission to land a woman on the moon, and she's expecting "really big things" to come from the next generation of young, female space enthusiasts.
Kathy Lueders , who until now led NASA's Commercial Crew Program, will take the helm of all crewed spaceflight activities at NASA as the associate administrator for the agency's Human Exploration and Operations Mission Directorate. The promotion, which NASA announced June 12, came about two weeks after Doug Loverro resigned from the position.
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Inside the US government's plan to blow up the moon
It sounds like the grandiose plan of a James Bond villain. Only the idea came, not from a fictional villain, but the government of the United States of America.
The secret mission, code-named "Project A119," was conceived at the dawn of the space race by an Air Force division located at New Mexico's Kirtland Air Force Base.
A June 1959 report entitled "A Study of Lunar Research Flights" outlined plans to explode the bomb on the moon's "terminator" — the area between the part of the surface that's illuminated by the sun and the part that's dark.
Dramatic view of Venus about to be swallowed up by the Moon – Astronomy Now
Venus was occulted by the Moon on June 19 in an event that was visible in broad daylight across the north-western half of Europe, including the UK. This fantastic shot of crescent-phase Venus just about to be swallowed up by a four per cent-illuminated old crescent Moon was captured remotely by Peter Goodhew. Realising he would be clouded out from London, he logged on to his dual rig at the e-EyE hosting site in Extremadura, Spain ( www.entreencinasyestrellas.es/en/en-home/ ).
June's old moon and Venus | Today's Image | EarthSky
Here are 2 beautiful images of the very old moon – a waning crescent seen in the east shortly before sunrise – near the brightest planet, Venus.
View at EarthSky Community Photos . | Isn’t this the coolest image ever? No, it’s not 2 moons. The larger one is Earth’s moon, and the smaller one is Venus! Alex Conu in Oslo, Norway, caught this image of the very close conjunction between the planet Venus and the moon in daylight on June 19, 2020, when both worlds were in a thin crescent phase. A few minutes after this photo was taken, Venus was occulted – or covered over – by the moon. Thank you, Alex!
'Ring of fire' solar eclipse of 2020 dazzles skywatchers across Africa and Asia | Space
The sun and moon converged in a dazzling "ring of fire" solar eclipse Sunday (June 21), stunning skywatchers across parts of Africa, Asia and more.
During the solar spectacle, known as an annular solar eclipse, the moon covered most — but not all — of the sun. During this type of eclipse, a bright "ring of fire" of the sun remains visible around the edge of the moon. The eclipse began at 11:45 p.m. EDT Saturday, June 20 (0345 GMT Sunday) and went until 5:34 a.m. EDT (1034 GMT) this morning.
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