April’s full “Pink Moon” dazzled stargazers with a bright display of the moon on April 1, just hours before NASA’s Artemis 2 mission launched 4 astronauts on a 10-day journey to the far side of the moon. The April is a full moon Also known as Pink Moon in North America, in reference to the … Read more
A photon from a star billions of light-years away takes no time to reach a telescope. It’s not too little time. There is nothing. That result is not a measured or poetic way of speaking. It comes directly from the mathematics of special relativity, and it points to another strange thing about the nature of … Read more
In August 2024, astronaut Rod Prazeres received a mysterious message on Instagram that seemed too good to be true – a “small production company” wanted to license his images for use in an undisclosed sci-fi film. Fun‘ at first – and rightly so – he thought he was being scammed. After all, how many production … Read more