Editor's note: The Super Flower Blood Moon lunar eclipse thrilled stargazers around the world and has ended. See photos, video and more in our wrap story here .
This month's full moon — known as the Flower Moon — will undergo a total eclipse early on Wednesday morning (May 26), when it becomes completely immersed for a short while in Earth's shadow. But it also so happens that at that same time our natural satellite will be near that point in its orbit closest to Earth, which means we'll see a "supermoon" as well.
May's super flower moon lights up the night skies – in pictures | Science | The Guardian
U.S firms GM, Lockheed aim for the moon with lunar rover venture | Reuters
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NASA astronaut Eugene A. Cernan makes a short checkout of the lunar rover during the early part of the first Apollo 17 extravehicular activity at the Taurus-Littrow landing site in this NASA handout picture taken forty years ago today, December 11, 1972, and released December 11, 2012. This photograph was taken by scientist-astronaut Harrison H. Schmitt, lunar module pilot. REUTERS/NASA/Handout (UNITED STATES - Tags: SCIENCE TECHNOLOGY) THIS IMAGE HAS BEEN SUPPLIED BY A THIRD PARTY.
GM and Lockheed said they would collaborate to make a battery-powered, autonomous Lunar Terrain Vehicle for NASA's Artemis lunar landing program, which aims to return U.S. astronauts to the moon as early as 2024.
Super blood moon 2021: how to take a good photograph of May's lunar eclipse with a phone or
Two reasons: it is very far away and unless you have a telephoto lens (which makes the moon appear closer than it is) it will always appear as a very small glowing dot in the frame.
Secondly, shooting at night is really difficult. Professional cameras allow you to change your ISO or your sensitivity rating which means you can shoot in low light situations without losing the quality of the image.
Jupiter's ocean moon Europa may have deep-sea volcanoes | Space
Běhounková and her colleagues modeled in detail how Europa's interior stretches and flexes as the moon is tugged by Jupiter's powerful gravity. Such deformation generates frictional heat, which keeps Europa's buried ocean from freezing over — and perhaps even partially melts the upper layer of the moon's rocky mantle, the researchers reported in the study, which was published in December in the journal Geophysical Research Letters .
Such melting may have fueled seabed volcanoes for most of Europa's history, perhaps even to the present day, the new study suggests. Volcanic activity is most likely near Europa's poles, where the internal heat loads are most intense, the scientists found.
PICTURES: Did you see the super blood moon? - ABC 36 News
WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP/WTVQ) – A glittering full moon has risen over New Zealand as people there and around the world wait for a cosmic event known as a super blood moon. It's when a full lunar eclipse coincides with a supermoon, which is when the moon is particularly close to Earth and appears brighter than normal.
For about 15 minutes, as the moon moves fully into Earth's shadow, the moon will appear to turn red.
New Zealand, Australia and some other places in the Pacific will see the show before midnight, while night owls in Hawaii and the western part of North America can see it the morning hours.
Super 'blood' moon rises over Las Vegas Valley — PHOTOS | Las Vegas Review-Journal
The first total lunar eclipse in more than two years was seen above the Las Vegas Valley early Wednesday morning.
The super “blood” moon was visible across the Pacific as well as the western half of North America, bottom of South America and eastern Asia.
In Las Vegas, the event began at 1:47 a.m., peaked at 4:18 a.m. and ended at 5:35 a.m. The event was largely obscured by clouds in the Las Vegas Valley, but the moon peaked out just before sunrise.
Full moon May 2021: 'Blood' red super moon and lunar eclipse will be most spectacular in years |
This month's full moon will appear bigger, brighter and redder than usual, as the rare simultaneous occurrence of a supermoon and a lunar eclipse takes place in some parts of the world on 26 May.
May's full moon is the second of two supermoons in 2021, with the previous one taking place in April over largely cloudy skies in the UK.
The term supermoon refers to the moon's proximity to Earth, having first been coined in 1979 by the astrologer Richard Nolle. Any full or new moon that is within 90 per cent of perigee – its closest approach to Earth – is considered a supermoon.
Large crowds gather to watch 'super blood moon' in Hong Kong | South China Morning Post
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