Check out this amazing view of the moon taken from the North Ocala area. Thanks to Sarah Harris for sharing!
Stunning Photos From The 'Super Flower Blood Moon' Lunar Eclipse : NPR
The lunar eclipse is seen in Santa Monica. Full moons that occur in May are sometimes known as flower moons. Frederic J. Brown/AFP via Getty Images hide caption
Maybe the sky was cloudy; maybe waking up in the middle of the night to look at the moon just sounds like lunacy. Whatever the reason, if you missed seeing last night's lunar eclipse , you're not alone. Luckily, there are plenty of photos and video of the rare sight.
For those of us who slept through the Super Flower Blood Moon: Here's a quick time lapse taken early this morning 🌷🌕 pic.twitter.com/Q38GJ4WrWH
Buildup to super blood moon eclipses the finale
People across New Zealand and around the world stayed up Wednesday to watch a cosmic event called a super blood moon, a combination of a total lunar eclipse and a brighter-than-usual supermoon.
When the full eclipse took hold, however, the moon darkened, turning a smudgy burnt orange color for many viewers.
In celestial terms, it was a wonder: a projection of the world's sunsets and sunrises onto the black canvas of the eclipsed moon. But for people peering up from their backyards, it wasn't quite the brilliant display they had anticipated. Not quite super or blood-colored.
NASA chief says budget keeps Artemis moon program on track - CBS News
The Biden administration's $24.8 billion fiscal 2022 budget request for NASA will keep the agency on track to send the the first woman and the next man to the moon as early as 2024, NASA Administrator Bill Nelson said Friday, but he warned that target date is far from certain.
"Space is hard," he said. "As you see the development of various space systems in the past, there have been delays. When you go farther and farther away from the Earth with new technologies, we have seen historically, delays. Will they occur? I can't answer that question.
Canada to launch moon rover by 2026 | Space
The nation will develop a robotic lunar rover in partnership with NASA and launch it by 2026, François-Philippe Champagne, Canada's Minister of Innovation, Science and Industry, announced on Wednesday (May 26).
"The rover will be carrying at least two science instruments, Canadian and American. The mission will aim to gather imagery and measurements and data of the surface of the moon, as well as to have the rover survive an entire night on the moon," Canadian Space Agency (CSA) officials said in a statement Wednesday . (One lunar night lasts about 14 Earth days.)
Does Video Show Giant Moon Blocking the Sun Over the Arctic? | Snopes.com
A video showing a gigantic moon rolling across the Arctic sky and briefly blocking out the sun has gone viral, with many claiming it is real. The moon in the video is very large, and appears to be extremely close to earth, moving at an unnaturally fast speed across the sky.
A "blood moon" occurs when the moon takes on a red hue as it aligns with the sun and Earth and passes fully into Earth's shadow. The moon is also at its closest point in its orbit to the earth, making it appear larger and brighter than normal, earning it the title "super." The first full moon in the month of May is also given the title "flower moon."
Protests, trolling and more: Drama swirls around NASA's next moon lander for astronauts | Space
In mid-April, NASA awarded SpaceX a $2.9 billion contract to finish development of its Starship vehicle and fly two missions with it to the lunar surface for the agency's Artemis program . If all goes according to plan, the second of those missions will put two astronauts down near the lunar south pole in the mid-2020s — the first crewed moon landing since Apollo 17 in 1972.
SpaceX, founded by billionaire Elon Musk , beat out two commercial competitors for the lunar lander deal — Dynetics and the "National Team," which is led by Blue Origin, a spaceflight company owned by billionaire Jeff Bezos . But those two groups didn't accept the decision and move on. They both filed protests with the U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO) in late April, citing perceived flaws in the award process.
Super Blood Moon and Lunar Eclipse 2021 - The New York Times
Australians were among those lucky enough to see it on Wednesday evening, a rare astronomical event marked by a dazzling array of sunset colors like red and burnt orange: a "super blood moon."
From Brazil to Alaska, California to Indonesia, people with the right view of the celestial phenomenon marveled as their moon, usually a predictable, pale, Swiss-cheese-like round in the sky, was transformed into a fierce, red giant. As one Twitter user , words failing, put it: "Man I'm in love with this urghhh."
Fly me to the moon? In other words, no – Marin Independent Journal
I was reading this week about the mad rush that seems to be going on to get in line to be launched into space — not because you are being forced to, or because you're being paid to, but because you want to.
I will make a confession here. I have never aspired to be an astronaut. I have never been glued to the television to watch a space launch. I think that Mars and those other big orbs out there are nice, but I frankly am much more interested in a good meal and a nice cabernet sauvignon.
Happening on Twitter
As people on the ground peered up to admire this rare super blood moon eclipse on May 26, perhaps the best view of… https://t.co/cZlDMxWHhC CNN Thu May 27 09:18:03 +0000 2021
WOW! Thanks to Michael Thompson for sharing this view of the Super Flower Blood Moon! This was taken from Chandler… https://t.co/fkz66FubMB abc15 (from Phoenix, AZ) Wed May 26 12:12:35 +0000 2021
Cloud cover has cleared just enough to see the lunar eclipse! This is the view of the moon from our Lake Travis cam… https://t.co/Yxr4X5MyUZ NHartfordWX (from Austin, TX) Wed May 26 11:06:14 +0000 2021
"Super Blood Moon Eclipse" 🩸🌙 will occur soon! Captured this shot of the moon moments ago before stratus filled in… https://t.co/fAlsZGDvGe NWSBayArea (from San Francisco, CA) Wed May 26 10:57:47 +0000 2021
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