Tag: Jonti Horner - article author
Why is the Moon bright? Is Easter a full moon? How long does a full moon last? Your Moon questions answered by an astronomer
Image: Shuttlestock
If you stepped outside on the weekend and thought, “Gosh, the full moon looks nice tonight”, you are not alone.
According to Google Trends,...
Asteroid 2018 VP₁ may be heading for Earth. But there’s no need to worry
Asteroid 2018 VP1 itself is too small and far away
to see clearly, so here’s an artist’s impression of a near-Earth object.
NASA...
How a seasonal snarl-up in the mid-1500s gave us our strange rules for leap years
Really, except if you are born on February 29th, it means
little . . . but how did it come about? Image: Shuttlecock
Did you...
Look up! Your guide to some of the best meteor showers for 2020
A composite image of one night watching the Orionids
meteor shower. Flickr/Jeff Sullivan
Where 2019 was a disappointing year for meteor showers, with two of...
Red planet rumbles: NASA’s recordings of ‘marsquakes’ let us listen to the martian heartbeat
The red planet. It may hold no life, but is it dead?
NASA/JPL
Thanks to the audio recordings of distant rumblings on Mars released last week...
Look up! Your guide to some of the best meteor showers for 2019
The 2018 Geminids meteor shower recorded over two very
cold hours on the slope of Mount Lütispitz, Switzerland.
Flickr/Lukas Schlagenhauf
The year gets off to...