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Meet S/2004 N 1, Neptune’s Newly Discovered Moon
Neptune’s new moon, photo credit of NASA, ESA, and M. Showalter (SETI Institute) On July 15th, NASA announced the discovery of a new moon for Neptune. Making it Neptune’s 14th moon, S/2004 N 1 was...
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GeekMom Video Playlist
Oh, this is great. My son is an intern at the Dudley Observatory this year. They recently put up a YouTube channel showing archival films found in their vaults. This is a 1957 Trip to the Moon. The...
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Summer Science Fun: The Moon
Orange Moon Phases – http://www.scenicreflections.com/media/271653/Orange_Phase_of_Our_Wonderful_Moon_Wallpaper/ The moon, it is always there in the sky watching us. It’s no wonder that stories have...
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Today’s Total Lunar Eclipse in Pictures
After reading GeekMom Melanie’s post about this morning’s lunar eclipse, I was motivated to get up early and rush out the door with my camera to take pictures. By the time I got to a local park near my...
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2 Self-Published Books Take Bedtime to the Moon
A peek at the inside of Little and the Moon. Photo: Justin Gloe. My son is always asking if we can read stories on the iPad. I personally prefer the look and feel of an actual book, but the digital...
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Mountains on the Moon: A Stunning Image From LRO
Reading Time: 2 minutes Astronomy Picture of the Day for July 6, 2011 – Sunrise at Tycho Crater (Credit: NASA / GSFC / Arizona State Univ. / Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter) If you don’t already, you...
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Zooming in on Apollo: New Images of the Moon From LRO
Reading Time: 3 minutes A portion of the Apollo 17 landing site from new LRO images. (Image: NASA/ASU) The Apollo missions to the Moon. Few things stand out in modern human history that are as...
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GRAIL Heading to the Moon With MoonKAM
Reading Time: 2 minutes The GRAIL Mission (Image: NASA) This morning, NASA launched the GRAIL mission to the Moon. Launched from Cape Canaveral aboard a Delta II rocket, the GRAIL mission is going to...
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Because the Living Dead Will Not Suffer a Minivan
Reading Time: 2 minutesI was strolling through the mall parking lot a few days ago and happened across this alternative to the usual minivan. I took a closer look — it’s not every day you see a hearse...
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2012: Canada Still Can’t Buy a Kindle Fire, But We Now Have Double Rainbow
Reading Time: 3 minutes “It’s a double rainbow all the way. Whoa, that’s so intense! Whoa! Man! Wow!” Okay, a mall parking lot isn’t the most inspirational setting, but this was still pretty cool....
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Enjoy Your Apollo-Era Conspiracy With The Cassandra Project
Reading Time: 5 minutes I was too young to enjoy watching Neil Armstrong walk on the Moon in 1969, but I did grow up waiting in anticipation for the first Shuttle launch. (I still have my Young/Crippen...
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Remembering Apollo 11: A Legacy of Bravery and Exploration
Reading Time: 2 minutes44 years ago today, Neil Armstrong, Edwin “Buzz” Aldrin Jr., and Michael Collins climbed into a small capsule on top of a Saturn V rocket at Kennedy Space Center, and, using less...
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11 Things to Watch Rather Than SyFy’s Aliens on the Moon “Documentary”
Reading Time: 3 minutes(Image: Flickr User kosmolaut under CC Attribution-ShareAlike 2.0 Generic (CC BY-SA 2.0)) There are some things we encounter in the world that just make a person want to shake...
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The High Cost of Living on the Moon
Reading Time: 1 minute https://www.buddyloans.com/blog/the-cost-of-living-on-the-moon/ [Infographic] by the team at BuddyLoans Click through to read all of "The High Cost of Living on the Moon" at...
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Daily #DadJoke for March 14, 2015
Reading Time: 1 minuteDaily #DadJoke for March 14, 2015: Happy ? Day! Be sure to celebrate the occasion at 3/14/15 9:26! What do you get when you take green cheese and divide its circumference by its...
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Book Review: ‘Seveneves’ by Neal Stephenson
Reading Time: 5 minutesMost authors, who are not Neal Stephenson, would have started writing Seveneves at page 565. They would have told an epic hard sci-fi tale about seven races attempting to...
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Daily #DadJoke for July 10, 2015
Reading Time: 1 minuteDaily #DadJoke for July 10, 2015: Did you hear about the new restaurant on the moon? The food is delicious, but the atmosphere is lacking. Have a great joke that you would like to...
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Reignite Your Passion for Space Travel With ‘The Smithsonian History of Space...
Reading Time: 4 minutesImage: Smithsonian Books Though some might say we’re currently in a bit of a lull in the space exploration department (though NASA and other groups are still working on some...
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Apollo 50th: Celebrating ‘Apollo’s Legacy: Perspectives on the Moon Landings’
Reading Time: 3 minutesThis year, we’re celebrating the 50th anniversary of one of the biggest news stories of the 20th century, the first moon landing on July 20, 1969. Capturing the interest, hearts,...
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NASA Comes Out With 2020’s Moon Phase Calendar and Calculator
Image: NASA Perfect for families who love to look at the night sky (or even the day sky, with the moon), you can print and make your own moon phase calendar on NASA’s website. NASA’s site has a...
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