The first supermoon of 2021 is coming, and it's the perfect time to look up at our ever-present celestial companion.
April's Pink Moon will brighten up the night skies on April 26-27. Because it's a supermoon, it means the full moon also coincides with the closest point in its orbit around Earth. But before you get too excited, the natural satellite's color won't actually turn pink. Here's everything you need to know to enjoy the first supermoon of the year.
Alien hunters should search for artifacts on the moon, study suggests | Space
The quest for these alien artifacts could start with the moon and other cosmic bodies near Earth, a new study finds.
For example, in 2004 , researchers suggested that broadcasting a signal across the cosmos is expensive and inefficient. Instead, the scientists calculated that inscribing messages onto a hunk of matter and launching it at potential extraterrestrial pen pals would require about a trillionth as much energy .
Japanese ispace lander to carry UAE moon rover to lunar surface in 2022 | Space
The United Arab Emirates' (UAE) robotic Rashid moon rover will be delivered to the lunar surface in 2022 by HAKUTO-R, a lander built by the Japanese company ispace , mission team members announced today (April 14).
The upcoming Emirates Lunar Mission will be the first moon landing for the Arab world and for Japan. To date, just three nations have soft-landed a spacecraft on the moon — the United States, the then-Soviet Union and China.
Today's announcement also represents a significant timeline shift for the Emirates Lunar Mission. When the UAE first announced the project last fall , the target launch date was 2024.
Astro Bob: How to feel the rhythm of the moon | Park Rapids Enterprise
But 24/7 lighting has diminished the stars, while mobile phones have blurred the difference between day and night. The sky and its rhythms, once essential, have become background. Deep down I believe we crave these cycles. They help us create and maintain a bond to the natural world, which is critical to our mental well-being and by extension to our physical health.
To see the newly-emerging lunar crescent, look low in the western sky tonight (April 13) starting about a half-hour after sunset. (Stellarium)
SpaceX will launch Astrobotic lander to the moon with NASA's ice-sniffing VIPER rover | Space
SpaceX's Falcon Heavy rocket — the same booster type that once sent the "Starman" mannequin to space in a Tesla Roadster — will send the Volatiles Investigating Polar Exploration Rover (VIPER) to the moon, on private company Astrobotic's lunar landing system.
Astrobotic's contract with NASA required the Pennsylvania-based company to independently select a launch contractor, and it chose SpaceX through a competitive procurement.
As with previous Falcon Heavy missions, SpaceX will launch VIPER from Launch Complex 39A at NASA's Kennedy Space Center near Orlando, Florida — a longtime launching location of moon missions, including the Apollo missions between 1969 and 1972.
Pittsburgh's Astrobotic teams with SpaceX for 2023 moon mission | TribLIVE.com
Pittsburgh-based Astrobotic announced Tuesday it is partnering with SpaceX for yet another groundbreaking moon mission.
In 2023, Astrobotic’s Griffin lunar lander is carrying NASA’s water-hunting Volatiles Investigating Polar Exploration Rover (VIPER) to the moon.
But first, it must hitch a ride to get there. So Astrobotic announced its selection of SpaceX’s Falcon Heavy rocket to launch the Griffin lander to the moon two years from now.
Why is NASA sending a woman to the moon? | Space
Monday (April 12) will mark the 60th anniversary of human spaceflight, or 60 years since the Soviet pilot and cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin became the first human being to go to space on April 12, 1961. Following this moment in history, NASA launched the first American into space and in just a few short years, landed the first humans on the moon.
Throughout NASA's Apollo program, 12 different astronauts stepped out onto the lunar surface. These moonwalkers all had one thing in common: they were all men . In the agency's first decades, the astronaut profile was extremely rigid; most astronauts were test pilots in their 30s and all were white men.
When, Where And How To See Mars And The Moon In This Week's Eye-Catching Close Encounter
There are few more beautiful views than a waxing crescent Moon nestling up close to a bright planet, and that's something you can see this weekend if you know when and where to look.
Look to the southwest after dark on Saturday, April 17, 2021 and those in the northern hemisphere will see our satellite close to Mars. It's the only planet visible to the naked eye in the evenings this month.
For observers in parts of Asia this conjunction will be even more dramatic as Mars gets occulted—covered-up—by the Moon for a few hours.
Someone should make a game about: art on the moon • Eurogamer.net
There is a surprising amount of art on the moon. There's a whole museum, allegedly - although it's very hard to confirm it's really up there. Who's going to check? You? Me?
The Moon Museum is pretty small as museums go - it's a piece of ceramic wafer, 19 by 13mm in size. It contains tiny images from six artists, and it's attached - allegedly - to the Apollo 12 Lunar Module, Intrepid. That means it's been up there and open to visitors since November 1969.
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