New Moon

of the celebration begins on the fourth day of the waxing moon period. The waxing moon is important because this is when the moon begins to grow into the full moon, bringing a time for new beginnings, positive change, and good luck! It is important to remember not to look at the moon on the night of Ganesha Chaturthi. There is a legend where Lord Ganesha cursed the Moon and since then it is believed that anyone who lays eyes on the moon this night will be condemned to face false accusations in…

June, the month of the Dyad moon, the time the God and the Goddess become one. It is a time to seek harmony in all things: light balances dark, heat balances cold, and good balances evil. Brenna Lindsay stood silently in the circle she'd formed of white beeswax candles. The full moon bathed the clearing with silver light. Cool night air met the still-warm ground, creating wispy patches of ground fog blanketing the earth like a sheet of transparent white cotton. Her wolf, White Star, sat on his…

craft flies in front of it. Actually a case of this occurred last year in 2015 while hundreds of people were watching the feed. Now I want to talk about something that will shock you, do you remember when we landed on the moon guess what happened when the feed cut from the moon to earth it wasn’t bad signal it was the government shutting down the cricut for a brief minute and the two lines that stuck out the most was when Neil Armstrong said these statements “They’re here under the surface.” and…

between the US and the USSR for space dominance. Also, the ultimate goal of both countries was to put a man on the moon. Two months later, the successful launch of Sputnik, the first man-made…

Eugene Shoemaker is one of the most renowned American geologists and astronomers of the last century. He brought the debate around the origin of Arizona’s Meteor crater to an end, helped pioneer an entirely new field of science and co-discovered one of the most scientifically impactful comets ever found.Until Shoemaker and Chao’s publication on the subject of coesite in 1960, it was accepted by most geologists that meteor crater was formed by an underground explosion brought on by volcanism He…

(“Cold War History”). The space race is defined as the period of time in the 50s and 60s where the U.S. and Soviets competed technologically to be the first to get a man on the moon. This space age began on October 4, 1957, when the U.S.S.R. put the first artificial satellite, Sputnik, into orbit around the Earth. As the news hit the U.S. the next day, many Americans were worried that the US had become technologically…

What is beauty? According to Lexi Herrick, ‘’Beauty is happiness”(Herrick). People experience Beauty in many ways, some see it in new places, animals, the planets, and at times even themselves. The sun, moon, the heart, paris, and horses all have their own beauty, all in their own ways. The sun is one of the largest and most beautiful stars, but it is not the largest (sun facts). Our sun is classified as a dwarf star, and the biggest star is called Red Giants(sun facts) although the sun is not…

a mathematician. He lived between 310–230 B.C. and belonged to the Pythagorean School of Thought (Heath). His mathematical knowledge helped him to discover great advances in the world of astronomy. His writing The Sizes and Distances of the Sun and Moon is his only surviving text (Aristarchus ‘16). Aristarchus’ description of the solar system was similar to our modern one and this was about 1500 years before Copernicus made his geocentric model (Hawley & Holcomb p.34). Aristarchus made various…

the world we live in and take our curiosity to new heights. In 1492, Christopher Columbus sailed across the ocean and reached North America. In the 1960’s, we accomplished something that was truly out of this world, for not only did we have a man orbit the earth, we put an astronaut on the moon. Today, humanity has its sights set on Mars, but getting to Mars and back poses a more difficult task than anything we’ve ever done before. However, because new technology is being developed every day to…

called the “Dwarf Planet” because of its size. It could be called a “plutoid” because it’s farther out into space. Pluto is occasionally closer to the sun than other times because of the oval orbit. Pluto has five moons, which are Kerberos, Styx, Nix, Hydra, and Charon. Because of the New Horizons information and pictures this data has helped scientists learn more about Pluto. Pluto was discovered in 1930 by an astronomer Clyde Tombaugh as working in the observatory in Arizona. The name Pluto…