Eclipses are wonderful examples of the extraordinary motion of the objects within our Solar System. For natural cosmic phenomena, you don’t get more remarkable than a total eclipse of the Moon! For a total lunar eclipse to occur, the Sun, Earth and Moon need to...
You’ve probably heard about ‘supermoons’, but what are they? In the strictest sense, supermoon isn’t an astronomy term — the name was coined by an astrologer, and even today, some people are still convinced that the extra gravitational...
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