Showing posts with label The Moon. Show all posts
Showing posts with label The Moon. Show all posts

Friday, August 22, 2025

A rare 'black moon' will rise tonight!!! But Worry not friends.



A rare 'black moon' will rise tonight and no it's not the end of days... Calm down will you? Jesus! So while it's not the end times.. Not yet anyway we are going to see something rare tonight and here is a detail as why you won't be able to see the phenomenon so easy. But what else you might want to know. An unusual lunar event like this one only happens once every 33 months and tonight Aug. 22, 2025 it's happening again! Get your freaks outfit on, if you're a furry type who likes to live as a wolf. Tonight is your night! Now but you won’t be able to see it. But A black moon will rise on Aug. 23 as the moon passes through its new moon phase at 2:06 a.m. ET. This will be the first black moon since May 2023.

But don't pull out your phone camera or telescope, because it will technically be invisible to us. Still, it's a very rare phenomenon that's worth knowing about, and it won't happen again until Aug. 31, 2027, according to Space.com. 

“Black moon” is not an official astronomical term since it can be seen as "racist" to liberals these days so let's call it "The Dark Passenger" sounds like a cool movie doesn't it? Or is that from "Dexter" ? Love that show... It's killer TV MAN! But anyway Space.com said, but it’s a useful way to describe the unique timing of this particular phase of the moon.

For context, a new moon is one of eight lunar phases. The moon isn’t visible from Earth during this phase because the sun, moon and Earth are all aligned, with the moon’s dark side facing Earth. (The only time we can see a new moon is during a solar eclipse.) On average, each astronomical season has three new moons. The current summer solstice started on June 20 and will end on Sept. 22, according to the BBC. New moons occurred on June 25 and July 24, and another one is expected to happen on Sept. 21, meteorologist Scott Sutherland wrote for the Weather Network.

But sometimes, the season has four new moons, and in those cases, the third of those four is considered a seasonal black moon, Sutherland explained. That’s why the Aug. 23 new moon is called a black moon. A black moon is not a lunar event you can watch. However, it could be an opportunity to take advantage of the seemingly moonless sky to try and watch the final night of the Perseid meteor shower. A thin crescent moon will be on display on the nights of Aug. 24 and Aug. 25, Space.com said. Viewers are advised to look toward the western horizon around half an hour after sunset to try and spot the crescent.

So just that we are clear there are no Aliens coming down tonight, and this won't be a space invasion afterall... Well here is hoping they land soon I'd like to ask them a few questions. Like what's up with all them probes up the you know where. They have a lot of things to answer for if you get me.

Tuesday, December 7, 2021

China's Yutu 2 rover spots cube-shaped 'mystery hut' on far side of the moon


So the moon has been full of surprises over the years! Here is another as China finds a “Cube on the moon!” Now they said It’s likely a large boulder excavated by an ancient lunar impact. China’s Yutu 2 rover spotted the mystery object on the horizon while working its way across Von Kármán crater on the far side of the moon. The Yutu 2 spotted a cube-shaped object on the horizon to the north and roughly 260 feet (80 meters) away in November during the mission’s 36th lunar day, according to a Yutu 2 diary published by Our Space, a Chinese language science outreach channel affiliated with the China National Space Administration (CNSA).



Our Space referred to the object as a “mystery hut” (神秘小屋/shenmi xiaowu), but this a placeholder name rather than an accurate description. Team scientists have expressed a strong interest in the object and Yutu 2 is now expected to spend the next 2-3 lunar days (2-3 Earth months) traversing lunar regolith and avoiding craters to get a closer look, so updates can be expected.

A likely explanation for the shape would be a large boulder which has been excavated by an impact event. The solar-powered Yutu 2 and Chang’e 4 lander made the first ever landing on the far side of the moon on Jan. 3, 2019, and the rover has been rolling through the 115-mile-wide (186 kilometers) Von Kármán crater ever since.

Chang’e 4, like its name suggests, is China’s fourth moon mission and second to deliver a rover on the moon. The Chang’e 1 and 2 missions were orbiters, with Chang’e 3 landing on the near side of the moon with the first Yutu rover. China has also launched the Chang’e 5 T1 test mission around the moon and the Chang’e 5 moon sample return mission.

We think it might be more serious then they think! We think the moon is now gangster territory!



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Friday, December 9, 2016

Today we mourn the passing of Sen. John Glenn... The Last American Hero!

Sen. John Glenn, the iconic astronaut lauded as the last American hero, has died. He was 95. Ohio State University officials announced Glenn’s death on December 8. He was being treated for a variety of ailments at James Cancer Hospital, where he was hospitalized since last week.

When he entered the hospital, officials did not reveal his exact illness, but they said people shouldn’t assume he had cancer because of the hospital’s name. Glenn died with his two children, John and Carolyn, and wife of 73 years at his side, said BBC.

He suffered a stroke two years ago and had heart valve replacement surgery. The Columbus Dispatch said Glenn’s health started to go downhill in 2013 when he had a pacemaker installed and experienced episodes of vertigo. He also had knee replacement surgery, the newspaper said. The Associated Press said Glenn’s eyesight was also failing this year, something he apologized for at a ceremony where an airport was renamed for him.

Ohio Gov. John Kasich announced Glenn’s death on Twitter.


According to the Columbus Dispatch, “Glenn’s body will lie in state at the Ohio Statehouse for a day, and a public memorial service will be held at Ohio State University’s Mershon Auditorium. He will be buried near Washington, D.C., at Arlington National Cemetery in a private service.”

Glenn was the first man to orbit the earth and later a U.S senator. According to NPR, Glenn was “the last surviving member of the original Mercury astronauts.” Glenn was also a World War II combat veteran, and the U.S. Marines posted a tweet mourning his loss.


Annie Glenn his wife, and now widow is still alive and is 96-years-old. Theirs was considered a great love story. Rest in Peace.