Spacetastically - SPACETASTIC

If you couldn’t tell already, NASA is having a great year. From Pluto to food grown in space, even in the face of budget cuts, the nation’s space agency had some stellar highlights. Most mysteriously of all, a spacecraft found two eerily bright lights on a distant dwarf planet.

On Friday night, July 31, look skyward to see the second full moon of this month—a “Blue Moon.”

From Neil deGrasse Tyson, Director of the Hayden Planetarium: 

“The average time between full moons is about 29.5 days. So any month but February can, in principle, harbor a Blue Moon. If you do the math, you will see that somebody gets a Blue Moon every 2.7 years, or so. Not particularly rare—no one thinks of Presidential elections as rare, yet they take place less often than Blue Moons. The Moon can actually look blue during rare (polluting) atmospheric conditions that involve volcanic eruptions and forest fires.”

Read Dr. Tyson’s full post. 

*blows kiss up to the sky (for the aliens)*

apparently nasa confirmed there’s an ocean on one of Jupiter’s moons say it with me kids: space mermaids

The Eagle has landed: July 20, 1969

Steve Lodge’s Astronomical Art

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Astronauts are about to eat food grown in space. Technology has looped far enough around to make farming an astonishing achievement yet again.

*sees moon* *remembers outer space* nice