2026-07-30 20:46:26
Tonight's supermoon (still 98.5% full) as seen from our nearby fields...
(Canon R7, 400mm, ISO800, f11, 1/6 sec, taken 22:05)
#Moon #Photography
Tonight's supermoon (still 98.5% full) as seen from our nearby fields...
(Canon R7, 400mm, ISO800, f11, 1/6 sec, taken 22:05)
#Moon #Photography
And the state of the debate about (details of) the origin of the #Moon ... today - Collisional Capture of an Intact Moon Depends on Strength: https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/2041-8213/ae91e9 -> SwRI-led modeling identifies new scenarios for Moon formation: https://www.swri.org/newsroom/press-releases/swri-led-modeling-identifies-new-scenarios-moon-formation
RE: #Moon discussion 100 years ago today #OTD in a German newspaper - featuring William Pickering and making a connection to #ContinentalDrift.
The Polar Resources Ice Mining Experiment-1 (PRIME-1) Payload Operations Summary from the IM-2 Mission: #Moon because the stupid lander fell over, again, but you still get a 22-page paper out of the disaster ...
#EveningSky over #Zurich just now.
#Clouds #Moon
Tonight’s conjunction of the waxing crescent #Moon and #Venus is very pretty. ☾♀☌
#astronomy #astrophotography
🇺🇦 Auf radioeins läuft...
Moon Duo:
🎵 Stars Are The Light
#NowPlaying #MoonDuo
https://open.spotify.com/track/19xLlmWwfG7uXfGcjkdnjO
Thick Lunar Crust Amplifies Deci-Hertz Gravitational-Wave Signals / Gravitational-Wave Tomography of the Moon: Constraining #Lunar Structure with Calibrated Gravitational Waves: #GravitationalWave Detectors Get a Lift from Geology: #Moon might gather more information than previously thought, thanks to geology.
🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #VarietyMix
Moon Duo:
🎵 The World and the Sun
#MoonDuo
https://moonduo.bandcamp.com/track/the-world-and-the-sun
https://open.spotify.com/track/0dpkOiQplc6atQ19JUultZ
🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #ChrisHawkins
Moon Attendant:
🎵 Victor Noir
#MoonAttendant
https://bigpotatorecords.bandcamp.com/track/victor-noir
https://open.spotify.com/track/5MQlSreniPLJ9bGTPy5iGY
Social interactions in isolated, confined, and extreme environments - a study of Antarctic winter teams using wearable sensors: #Antarctica #Moon #Mars
A new 222-m diameter lunar crater / New lunar crater reveals extensive distal regolith modification: #Moon Crater: https://science.nasa.gov/solar-system/moon/nasas-moon-orbiter-spots-new-once-in-century-moon-crater/ and https://lroc.im-ldi.com/images/1501
Magmatic origin of the Dewar magnetic anomaly - implications for an early lunar dynamo: #Moon provides clues to a previous magnetic field: https://ethz.ch/en/news-and-events/eth-news/news/2026/09/the-far-side-of-the-moon-provides-clues-to-a-previous-magnetic-field.html
🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #MiddayShow
Moon Duo:
🎵 Sleepwalker
#MoonDuo
https://moonduo.bandcamp.com/track/sleepwalker
https://open.spotify.com/track/1qr2bHbX2X05w8rsEmadT7
No cities on the #Moon - a billion tons of water is not enough for sustainability: https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/space-technologies/articles/10.3389/frspt.2026.1894104/full -> "Unless recycling can be improved by factors of about 10, or a similarly greater water supply is discovered, this result precludes large-scale long-term human habitation of the Moon" -> Forget lunar metropolises - water limits could cap moon's population, scientists say: https://abcnews.com/International/forget-lunar-metropolises-water-limits-capmoonspopulation-scientists/story?id=136371711
The role of disruptive impacts on ocean generation and longevity in icy moons: #Moons Gain or Lose Their Ability to Sustain Life: https://www.astro.umd.edu/news-events/news/marc-neveu-simulates-icy-moon-cosmic-crashes-frozen-oceans - a study found that catastrophic collisions between icy moons barely disturb the hidden oceans beneath their frozen surfaces, offering new insights into life beyond Earth.
Potential survivable niches for microbial life on the lunar south pole: #Moon
Potential sighting of the new big #Moon crater in archival amateur images: https://www.astrode.de/mondflug2/9neuer16j26.htm - nothing there until and including 14 May 2024 which (together with LRO's observations) would reduce the impact time interval to a mere week.
🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #AstralPlane
Moon Duo:
🎵 Sleepwalker
#MoonDuo
https://moonduo.bandcamp.com/track/sleepwalker
https://open.spotify.com/track/1qr2bHbX2X05w8rsEmadT7
RE: #Moon!
🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #MorningShow
Moon Duo:
🎵 Jukebox Babe
#MoonDuo
https://moonduo.bandcamp.com/track/jukebox-babe
https://open.spotify.com/track/5zldKan8Pu2rPegmeY0wIV
🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #VarietyMix
Moon Boots, Lyric Jones:
🎵 Sunshine
#MoonBoots #LyricJones
https://foolsgoldrecs.bandcamp.com/track/sunshine
https://open.spotify.com/track/2ApLg0vSM6AIZ1dYQRZ9kY
🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #TheBBCIntroducingMixtape
Moon Idle:
🎵 Seed (Radio Edit)
#MoonIdle
https://moonidle.bandcamp.com/track/seed
https://open.spotify.com/track/36gB3P0x7EvWQwguMZhzH7
🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #AstralPlane
Moon Duo:
🎵 Mirror’s Edge
#MoonDuo
https://moonduo.bandcamp.com/track/mirrors-edge
https://open.spotify.com/track/2SA0sqeKiA992kqZkGsIWa
The seismic signature of lunar ice: #moon—a critical resource for future astronauts and extended lunar missions: https://cmns.umd.edu/news-events/news/nicholas-schmerr-moonquakes-locate-lunar-ice
🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #VarietyMix
Moonshine feat. Kris the $pirit, Victor Bongiovanni:
🎵 Moon Girl
#Moonshine #Kristhe$pirit #VictorBongiovanni
How Korea's #Moon orbiter #Danuri saw the aftermath of the rocket impact: https://www.kasa.go.kr/prog/plcyBrf/brief/kor/sub01_01_04/view.do?plcyBrfNo=462 (see links in https://skyweek.wordpress.com/2026/08/05/allgemeines-live-blog-ab-dem-5-august-2026/#Aug6 for reports in English that are mostly just translations). And https://nitter.net/jmmadiedo/status/2085344665562165293 shows an animation of what seems to be the ejecta plume as imaged from Spain.