Venus transits the sun

Today is Sun-Earth day. Venus transits the sun. And while our friends over at The Universe (https://www.facebook.com/AstrophysicsAndAstronomy) already reported about that, maybe some of you like it as well. NASA is having a live webcast right now over at: http://venustransit.nasa.gov/transitofvenus/ They’re talking about the relationship to planetary and earth science too. Worth a try! Don’t […]

Under a raging moon.

On the 5th of may several spectacular moments combined to the beautiful picture taken by @etnaboris (Twitter / Flickr). We had the “supermoon”. This just means that two phenomenae joined, making the moon appear bigger than usual. The moon is on a slightly elliptical path around earth. Now what happened is that full moon and […]