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"content": "\u003cp>Get ready for one of the year’s best \u003ca href=\"https://www.timeanddate.com/astronomy/meteor-shower/list.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">meteor showers\u003c/a>!\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the early morning hours of Wednesday, Dec. 14, the night sky will light up as the Geminids meteor shower reaches its peak of activity, producing exceptionally bright and sometimes colorful meteors to delight any night-sky enthusiast.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>How and when to watch Geminids\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Geminids can be seen as early as 10 p.m. PST on Tuesday, Dec. 13. At this time, the meteors’ apparent source, or “\u003ca href=\"https://earthsky.org/astronomy-essentials/radiant-point-of-meteor-showers/\">radiant point\u003c/a>,” the constellation Gemini, becomes well-positioned in the night sky. This makes the Geminids shower unusual in that some of its meteors can be glimpsed before midnight.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_1980928\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1024px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-1980928 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/35/2022/12/Dec142022-2-copy.jpg\" alt='Bright circle labeled \"moon.\" Smaller bright circles for the planets and constellations. ' width=\"1024\" height=\"773\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2022/12/Dec142022-2-copy.jpg 1024w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2022/12/Dec142022-2-copy-800x604.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2022/12/Dec142022-2-copy-1020x770.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2022/12/Dec142022-2-copy-160x121.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2022/12/Dec142022-2-copy-768x580.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Map of the night sky looking south around 2 a.m. on Wednesday morning, Dec. 14. The twin stars of the constellation Gemini, the radiant source of meteors of the Geminids shower, are at the top, high in the sky above the asterism called the Winter Triangle, and the constellation Orion. Mars is located westward of this area, bright and prominent, as it is currently near its closest approach to Earth. \u003ccite>(Ben Burress/Made using Stellarium)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Chabot Space and Science Center is hosting a \u003ca href=\"https://chabotspace.org/calendar/geminids-meteor-shower/\">meteor watching party\u003c/a>, beginning at 11 p.m. on Tuesday, Dec. 13, and running until 3 a.m. Wednesday morning.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Throughout the shower, meteors will appear to radiate from Gemini, which reaches its highest point in the sky around 2 a.m.; that’ll be the optimum time to see the most shooting stars.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Geminids shower typically produces around \u003ca href=\"https://in-the-sky.org/article.php?term=zenithal_hourly_rate\">120 meteors per hour\u003c/a>, so under clear, dark sky conditions, you may see up to two a minute.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At 2 a.m., Gemini will be almost directly overhead, easily identified by its two equally bright stars, Castor and Pollux, the \u003ca href=\"https://study.com/academy/lesson/castor-pollux-in-greek-mythology-story-mother-constellation.html\">twin brothers of Greek myth\u003c/a>. Meteors may be seen almost anywhere in the sky, but if you lie down on a blanket and lock your gaze onto Gemini above, you’ll maximize the number of falling stars you can catch.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This year the waning gibbous moon, which is a not-quite-full moon diminishing toward the third-quarter phase, will rise around 10 p.m. on Tuesday evening and remain in the sky until well after dawn. Still, the Geminids shower tends to produce bright meteors that will be visible despite interference from moonlight.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Where can you find the darkest skies?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The best place to watch a meteor shower is where skies are darkest, away from urban lights. If you live in the city, light pollution can be difficult to avoid, and driving miles from home in the middle of the night can be an undertaking of planning and willpower. But the rewards are well worth it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>You might see a meteor or two even from a city dwelling, but the Bay Area has \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/quest/155/dark-secrets\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">numerous places you can reach in less than half an hour that provide some protection from city lights\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_1980930\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1707px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-1980930 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/35/2022/12/01_domes-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"Bright dots scattered across the night sky, blue, orange and red sunset and a glowing orange round buildings. \" width=\"1707\" height=\"2560\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2022/12/01_domes-scaled.jpg 1707w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2022/12/01_domes-800x1200.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2022/12/01_domes-1020x1530.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2022/12/01_domes-160x240.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2022/12/01_domes-768x1152.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2022/12/01_domes-1024x1536.jpg 1024w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2022/12/01_domes-1365x2048.jpg 1365w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2022/12/01_domes-1920x2880.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1707px) 100vw, 1707px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Composite image of the telescope domes at Chabot Space and Science Center under the clear night sky. \u003ccite>(Chabot Space and Science Center/Conrad Jung)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In the South Bay, Henry Coe State Park is a prime spot. Along the peninsula are dark niches bordering the coastal mountains. North of the bay, in Sonoma and Napa counties, are wide spans of dark country roads to choose from. In the East Bay hills are some good pullouts, from the Tilden Park region all the way south to Sunol. Mount Diablo offers some good spots, as well.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In any case, you know your home ground best and probably can think of some good spots. Be wise, be safe and dress for the cold.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>What is a meteor shower?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>A \u003ca href=\"https://solarsystem.nasa.gov/asteroids-comets-and-meteors/meteors-and-meteorites/overview/?page=0&per_page=40&order=id+asc&search=&condition_1=meteor_shower%3Abody_type\">meteor\u003c/a> is a small bit of space rock or metal, typically no bigger than a pebble, that burns up when it enters Earth’s atmosphere traveling at speeds of many miles per second. You’d get pretty hot, too, going that fast through the atmosphere — ask any astronaut who has been to space and returned home in a fiery reentry.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_1980931\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-1980931 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/35/2022/12/meteors-leonids-carter-roberts-2.jpg\" alt=\"Bright lights across the sky, blue and yellow lines. \" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2022/12/meteors-leonids-carter-roberts-2.jpg 640w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2022/12/meteors-leonids-carter-roberts-2-160x90.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Luminous and colorful streaks left behind by shooting stars of the Leonids meteor shower, which takes place annually in November. Color in meteors comes from different composition of the dust grains burning up. Some are composed of stone, others of metal. \u003ccite>(Chabot Space and Science Center/Carter Roberts)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>A \u003ca href=\"https://stardate.org/nightsky/meteors\">meteor shower\u003c/a> happens when Earth passes through a cloud of dust left behind by the passage of a comet. When Earth slams into the dust cloud, moving along its orbit around the sun at 18 miles per second, its sky becomes filled with the incinerating specks: meteors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Meteor showers are best viewed in the early morning hours because the viewer is on the side of the Earth moving into the dust. Think of a car speeding along a freeway and driving through a cloud of flying insects: Bug streaks only appear on the windshield and not the rear window.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Where did the Geminids shower come from?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The Geminids meteor shower is unusual for another reason. While most showers come from trails of dust left behind by comets that passed through the inner solar system, the Geminids originate from what astronomers call a “rock comet” named \u003ca href=\"https://www.nasa.gov/centers/marshall/news/lunar/phaethon.html\">3200 Phaeton\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_1980929\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 240px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1980929\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/35/2022/12/phaeton-asteroid-2017.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"240\" height=\"240\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Radio telescope image of 3200 Phaeton, the ‘rock comet’ that is the source of dust that produces the Geminids meteor shower. \u003ccite>(Arecibo Observatory/NASA)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Unlike typical comets that are made mostly of frozen water and other volatile materials, Phaeton is more like an asteroid, composed of rock and dust and probably some ice as well. When it passes close to the sun, Phaeton heats up, and some of the ice it contains vaporizes, blowing off into space and carrying dust with it.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>For your added viewing enjoyment\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>As long as you’re up so early waiting to see meteors, take the time to look around at some of the sky’s other wonders.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>First, the moon is up there. Enough said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The planet Mars shines high in the sky to the west of Gemini. To locate this rosy celestial gem, look for a bright orange dot shining steadily, without flickering like stars do. Stars flicker because they are distant enough to be simple delicate points of light, strongly affected by turbulence in Earth’s atmosphere, like candles blowing in the wind. Planets, however, are much closer and appear in the sky as disks, much less influenced by atmospheric refraction.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And you can’t miss the complex of bright stars that form Orion and his famous belt of three.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Spanning the sky to the south of Gemini is the asterism called the Winter Triangle, formed by the bright orange star Betelgeuse in Orion, the golden-white Procyon, and the brightest star of the night sky, the rainbow sparkler Sirius.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Stay warm and enjoy!\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Geminids shower typically produces around \u003ca href=\"https://in-the-sky.org/article.php?term=zenithal_hourly_rate\">120 meteors per hour\u003c/a>, so under clear, dark sky conditions, you may see up to two a minute.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At 2 a.m., Gemini will be almost directly overhead, easily identified by its two equally bright stars, Castor and Pollux, the \u003ca href=\"https://study.com/academy/lesson/castor-pollux-in-greek-mythology-story-mother-constellation.html\">twin brothers of Greek myth\u003c/a>. Meteors may be seen almost anywhere in the sky, but if you lie down on a blanket and lock your gaze onto Gemini above, you’ll maximize the number of falling stars you can catch.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This year the waning gibbous moon, which is a not-quite-full moon diminishing toward the third-quarter phase, will rise around 10 p.m. on Tuesday evening and remain in the sky until well after dawn. Still, the Geminids shower tends to produce bright meteors that will be visible despite interference from moonlight.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Where can you find the darkest skies?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The best place to watch a meteor shower is where skies are darkest, away from urban lights. If you live in the city, light pollution can be difficult to avoid, and driving miles from home in the middle of the night can be an undertaking of planning and willpower. But the rewards are well worth it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>You might see a meteor or two even from a city dwelling, but the Bay Area has \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/quest/155/dark-secrets\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">numerous places you can reach in less than half an hour that provide some protection from city lights\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_1980930\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1707px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-1980930 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/35/2022/12/01_domes-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"Bright dots scattered across the night sky, blue, orange and red sunset and a glowing orange round buildings. \" width=\"1707\" height=\"2560\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2022/12/01_domes-scaled.jpg 1707w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2022/12/01_domes-800x1200.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2022/12/01_domes-1020x1530.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2022/12/01_domes-160x240.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2022/12/01_domes-768x1152.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2022/12/01_domes-1024x1536.jpg 1024w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2022/12/01_domes-1365x2048.jpg 1365w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2022/12/01_domes-1920x2880.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1707px) 100vw, 1707px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Composite image of the telescope domes at Chabot Space and Science Center under the clear night sky. \u003ccite>(Chabot Space and Science Center/Conrad Jung)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In the South Bay, Henry Coe State Park is a prime spot. Along the peninsula are dark niches bordering the coastal mountains. North of the bay, in Sonoma and Napa counties, are wide spans of dark country roads to choose from. In the East Bay hills are some good pullouts, from the Tilden Park region all the way south to Sunol. Mount Diablo offers some good spots, as well.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In any case, you know your home ground best and probably can think of some good spots. Be wise, be safe and dress for the cold.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>What is a meteor shower?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>A \u003ca href=\"https://solarsystem.nasa.gov/asteroids-comets-and-meteors/meteors-and-meteorites/overview/?page=0&per_page=40&order=id+asc&search=&condition_1=meteor_shower%3Abody_type\">meteor\u003c/a> is a small bit of space rock or metal, typically no bigger than a pebble, that burns up when it enters Earth’s atmosphere traveling at speeds of many miles per second. You’d get pretty hot, too, going that fast through the atmosphere — ask any astronaut who has been to space and returned home in a fiery reentry.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_1980931\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-1980931 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/35/2022/12/meteors-leonids-carter-roberts-2.jpg\" alt=\"Bright lights across the sky, blue and yellow lines. \" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2022/12/meteors-leonids-carter-roberts-2.jpg 640w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2022/12/meteors-leonids-carter-roberts-2-160x90.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Luminous and colorful streaks left behind by shooting stars of the Leonids meteor shower, which takes place annually in November. Color in meteors comes from different composition of the dust grains burning up. Some are composed of stone, others of metal. \u003ccite>(Chabot Space and Science Center/Carter Roberts)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>A \u003ca href=\"https://stardate.org/nightsky/meteors\">meteor shower\u003c/a> happens when Earth passes through a cloud of dust left behind by the passage of a comet. When Earth slams into the dust cloud, moving along its orbit around the sun at 18 miles per second, its sky becomes filled with the incinerating specks: meteors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Meteor showers are best viewed in the early morning hours because the viewer is on the side of the Earth moving into the dust. Think of a car speeding along a freeway and driving through a cloud of flying insects: Bug streaks only appear on the windshield and not the rear window.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Where did the Geminids shower come from?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The Geminids meteor shower is unusual for another reason. While most showers come from trails of dust left behind by comets that passed through the inner solar system, the Geminids originate from what astronomers call a “rock comet” named \u003ca href=\"https://www.nasa.gov/centers/marshall/news/lunar/phaethon.html\">3200 Phaeton\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_1980929\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 240px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1980929\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/35/2022/12/phaeton-asteroid-2017.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"240\" height=\"240\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Radio telescope image of 3200 Phaeton, the ‘rock comet’ that is the source of dust that produces the Geminids meteor shower. \u003ccite>(Arecibo Observatory/NASA)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Unlike typical comets that are made mostly of frozen water and other volatile materials, Phaeton is more like an asteroid, composed of rock and dust and probably some ice as well. When it passes close to the sun, Phaeton heats up, and some of the ice it contains vaporizes, blowing off into space and carrying dust with it.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>For your added viewing enjoyment\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>As long as you’re up so early waiting to see meteors, take the time to look around at some of the sky’s other wonders.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>First, the moon is up there. Enough said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The planet Mars shines high in the sky to the west of Gemini. To locate this rosy celestial gem, look for a bright orange dot shining steadily, without flickering like stars do. Stars flicker because they are distant enough to be simple delicate points of light, strongly affected by turbulence in Earth’s atmosphere, like candles blowing in the wind. Planets, however, are much closer and appear in the sky as disks, much less influenced by atmospheric refraction.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And you can’t miss the complex of bright stars that form Orion and his famous belt of three.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Spanning the sky to the south of Gemini is the asterism called the Winter Triangle, formed by the bright orange star Betelgeuse in Orion, the golden-white Procyon, and the brightest star of the night sky, the rainbow sparkler Sirius.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>A rare perfect alignment of sun, Earth and moon will take place in the early morning hours of Tuesday, November 8, setting the stage for one of the most spectacular celestial events of the night sky: \u003ca href=\"https://moon.nasa.gov/moon-in-motion/eclipses/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">a total lunar eclipse\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The full moon will pass through the point in the sky exactly opposite the sun and be painted in inky darkness by Earth’s shadow.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A special treat is in store for sky enthusiasts around the Bay Area and along the West Coast, where \u003ca href=\"https://www.timeanddate.com/eclipse/lunar/2022-november-8\">the eclipse will be visible from beginning to end\u003c/a>, without interruption by moonrise or moonset.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_1980620\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1024px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-1980620 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/35/2022/10/nov0822-totallunareclipse-worldmap.jpg\" alt=\"A map of the world in the background. A red moon in the center foreground with purple, blue, green yellow, orange and red lines extending across the image.\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2022/10/nov0822-totallunareclipse-worldmap.jpg 1024w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2022/10/nov0822-totallunareclipse-worldmap-800x450.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2022/10/nov0822-totallunareclipse-worldmap-1020x574.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2022/10/nov0822-totallunareclipse-worldmap-160x90.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2022/10/nov0822-totallunareclipse-worldmap-768x432.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">World map showing where, and how much of, the total lunar eclipse on Nov. 8, 2022, will be visible. The entire sequence of this eclipse (shown as the darkest region on the map) will be visible from half of the Pacific Ocean, including the entire West Coast of the US. Times are shown in Coordinated Universal Time (Greenwich Mean Time). \u003ccite>(NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center/Scientific Visualization Studio)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>When is the eclipse?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The eclipse begins Tuesday morning at 12:02 a.m. PST, when the moon first encounters Earth’s partial, or penumbral, shadow. You may not see much of a change immediately, but over the next hour you can witness a subtle dimming of the full moon’s brightness.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The real show begins at 1:09 a.m., when the moon contacts Earth’s full shadow, the \u003ca href=\"https://www.nasa.gov/audience/forstudents/k-4/stories/umbra-and-penumbra\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">dark umbra \u003c/a>blocking all sunlight. In the moments after, a prominent darkening will appear at the moon’s edge as the shadow nibbles away at the bright lunar disk. By 1:50 a.m., half of the moon will be consumed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Chabot Space and Science Center is hosting a \u003ca href=\"https://chabotspace.org/calendar/total-lunar-eclipse-2/\">Total Lunar Eclipse Watch Party\u003c/a> from 11:30 p.m. on Monday evening until 4 a.m. Tuesday morning.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_1980616\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-1980616 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/35/2022/10/umbra-penumbra-NASA.jpg\" alt=\"A diagram that shows two grey triangles streaming behind Earth's north and south poles -- that's the Penumbra. And a black triangle, Earth's Umbra, streaming from the equator. \" width=\"1920\" height=\"1080\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2022/10/umbra-penumbra-NASA.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2022/10/umbra-penumbra-NASA-800x450.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2022/10/umbra-penumbra-NASA-1020x574.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2022/10/umbra-penumbra-NASA-160x90.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2022/10/umbra-penumbra-NASA-768x432.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2022/10/umbra-penumbra-NASA-1536x864.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Illustration of Earth’s partial (penumbral) and full (umbral) shadows. When the moon passes through Earth’s shadow, we witness a lunar eclipse. \u003ccite>(NASA)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>Totality\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The climax of the eclipse, what’s known as “totality,” starts at 2:16 a.m. and will last almost an hour and a half. This is when the moon is fully engulfed in Earth’s dark umbra. The moon will be deepest in shadow and darkest at 2:59 a.m. If you’re only interested in waking for a few moments to catch a glimpse of the eclipse, this is the time to set your alarm for.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Totality ends at 3:41 a.m., when the moon begins to emerge from the umbral shadow into the partial sunlight of the penumbra, where only some of the sun’s light is blocked. If you’re a die-hard fan of lunar eclipses, you can stay up until the eclipse officially ends at 5:56 a.m. — but totality is the best part of the show, so when that’s over you can go back to bed and not worry about missing much.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Why doesn’t the moon completely disappear at totality?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>During a total lunar eclipse, the moon passes through Earth’s full shadow, the umbra, where no direct sunlight falls, yet it is still lit up in a dull orange or reddish light.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Sunlight that slips around the edges of the Earth is bent and filtered by our atmosphere, its twilight rays \u003ca href=\"https://earthsky.org/space/when-can-you-see-earths-shadow/\">shining into the dark umbra\u003c/a> like a dim night-light. We see the same rosy glow at dusk every evening as sunlight is scattered over the horizon to illuminate the landscape, even after the sun has set. The same atmospheric glow passes on into space, shedding its radiance into Earth’s shadow. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_1980621\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 900px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-1980621 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/35/2022/10/Luneclipse-1-20-2000s.jpg\" alt=\"The white moon partially shadowed in red and white. \" width=\"900\" height=\"599\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2022/10/Luneclipse-1-20-2000s.jpg 900w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2022/10/Luneclipse-1-20-2000s-800x532.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2022/10/Luneclipse-1-20-2000s-160x106.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2022/10/Luneclipse-1-20-2000s-768x511.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 900px) 100vw, 900px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Total lunar eclipse on Jan. 20, 2000. This photograph was taken during totality; one edge of the moon appears brighter since it was crossing near the edge of Earth’s dark umbral shadow, and not deeply through the center. \u003ccite>(Chabot Space and Science Center/Conrad Jung)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">An astronaut standing on the moon and looking back at the Earth during a total lunar eclipse would see a black disk rimmed in a ring of fiery light that includes all the Earth’s sunrises and sunsets in one stunning view.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>How often do lunar eclipses occur?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://nineplanets.org/total-lunar-eclipse/\">Lunar eclipses occur regularly\u003c/a>, anywhere between two and four times per year. Some are partial eclipses, when the moon only grazes Earth’s umbral shadow. Some are penumbral eclipses, where the moon misses the umbra completely and only passes through Earth’s half-shadow, its light dimming so subtly it might not even be noticed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A total lunar eclipse happens about every two and a half years, on average, and is only visible from half of our planet, and in some locations only partially. So, November’s full, end-to-end eclipse is a very rare treat for people on the West Coast who can enjoy it — and well worth getting up in the middle of the night to witness.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Benjamin Burress has been a staff astronomer at Chabot Space and Science Center since July 1999.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>A rare perfect alignment of sun, Earth and moon will take place in the early morning hours of Tuesday, November 8, setting the stage for one of the most spectacular celestial events of the night sky: \u003ca href=\"https://moon.nasa.gov/moon-in-motion/eclipses/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">a total lunar eclipse\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The full moon will pass through the point in the sky exactly opposite the sun and be painted in inky darkness by Earth’s shadow.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A special treat is in store for sky enthusiasts around the Bay Area and along the West Coast, where \u003ca href=\"https://www.timeanddate.com/eclipse/lunar/2022-november-8\">the eclipse will be visible from beginning to end\u003c/a>, without interruption by moonrise or moonset.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_1980620\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1024px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-1980620 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/35/2022/10/nov0822-totallunareclipse-worldmap.jpg\" alt=\"A map of the world in the background. A red moon in the center foreground with purple, blue, green yellow, orange and red lines extending across the image.\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2022/10/nov0822-totallunareclipse-worldmap.jpg 1024w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2022/10/nov0822-totallunareclipse-worldmap-800x450.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2022/10/nov0822-totallunareclipse-worldmap-1020x574.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2022/10/nov0822-totallunareclipse-worldmap-160x90.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2022/10/nov0822-totallunareclipse-worldmap-768x432.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">World map showing where, and how much of, the total lunar eclipse on Nov. 8, 2022, will be visible. The entire sequence of this eclipse (shown as the darkest region on the map) will be visible from half of the Pacific Ocean, including the entire West Coast of the US. Times are shown in Coordinated Universal Time (Greenwich Mean Time). \u003ccite>(NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center/Scientific Visualization Studio)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>When is the eclipse?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The eclipse begins Tuesday morning at 12:02 a.m. PST, when the moon first encounters Earth’s partial, or penumbral, shadow. You may not see much of a change immediately, but over the next hour you can witness a subtle dimming of the full moon’s brightness.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The real show begins at 1:09 a.m., when the moon contacts Earth’s full shadow, the \u003ca href=\"https://www.nasa.gov/audience/forstudents/k-4/stories/umbra-and-penumbra\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">dark umbra \u003c/a>blocking all sunlight. In the moments after, a prominent darkening will appear at the moon’s edge as the shadow nibbles away at the bright lunar disk. By 1:50 a.m., half of the moon will be consumed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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Now, the new James Webb Space Telescope has captured NASA’s most detailed image of the landscape that is helping scientists better understand how stars form.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_1980485\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1980485\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/35/2022/10/nasa-2022_custom-255de3fd5da118dd650c6c054a4a6774931aa498-800x1386.png\" alt=\"The Pillars of Creation as captured by NASA's James Webb Space Telescope look like arches and spires and are filled with semi-transparent gas and dust. This is a region where young stars are forming.\" width=\"800\" height=\"1386\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2022/10/nasa-2022_custom-255de3fd5da118dd650c6c054a4a6774931aa498-800x1386.png 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2022/10/nasa-2022_custom-255de3fd5da118dd650c6c054a4a6774931aa498-160x277.png 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2022/10/nasa-2022_custom-255de3fd5da118dd650c6c054a4a6774931aa498-768x1330.png 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2022/10/nasa-2022_custom-255de3fd5da118dd650c6c054a4a6774931aa498-887x1536.png 887w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2022/10/nasa-2022_custom-255de3fd5da118dd650c6c054a4a6774931aa498.png 985w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Pillars of Creation as captured by NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope look like arches and spires and are filled with semi-transparent gas and dust. This is a region where young stars are forming. \u003ccite>(NASA, ESA, CSA, STScI; Joseph DePasquale (STScI), Anton M. Koekemoer (STScI), Alyssa Pagan (STScI))\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The James Webb telescope, billed as the successor to the aging Hubble, is\u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2021/09/16/1036600340/nasa-is-launching-a-new-telescope-that-could-offer-some-cosmic-eye-candy\"> optimized to see near- and mid-infrared light\u003c/a> invisible to people, allowing it to peer through dust that can obscure stars and other objects in Hubble images. While James Webb’s infrared eyes were \u003ca href=\"https://www.nasa.gov/feature/goddard/2022/nasa-s-webb-takes-star-filled-portrait-of-pillars-of-creation\">not able to pierce through\u003c/a> a mix of gas and dust in the Pillars of Creation, its new view will help scientists identify more precise counts of newly formed stars, and the amount of gas and dust in the region.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.stsci.edu/~pontoppi/#about\">Klaus Pontoppidan,\u003c/a> a project scientist working on the James Webb, \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/pontoppi/status/1582745751318253569\">wrote\u003c/a> on Twitter that the team wanted to capture the Pillars of Creation using the new space telescope after seeing popular demand for it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The nebula, M16, is located right in the plane of the Milky Way; there are just so many stars!” Pontoppidan wrote. “This image was taken in exactly the same way as the cosmic cliffs, and covers an area the same size on the sky.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_1980486\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1980486\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/35/2022/10/nasa-compare_wide-66033c42a0761794025a2d285715a4d32e669dd6-800x450.png\" alt=\"The left picture shows the Pillars of Creation as shot by the Hubble Space Telescope in 1995. 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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">How does crashing a spacecraft into a distant asteroid prevent global catastrophe on Earth? \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">We’re about to find out.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">On September 26, NASA’s\u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://dart.jhuapl.edu/\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> Double Asteroid Redirection Test\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> spacecraft, or DART, will make its final approach to a pair of asteroids, a half-mile-wide mountain of rock named\u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://solarsystem.nasa.gov/asteroids-comets-and-meteors/asteroids/didymos/in-depth/\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> Didymos\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> and its moonlet Dimorphos, targeting the smaller space rock for a 15,000-mile-per-hour collision.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">The high-speed impact of the 1,260-pound spacecraft will nudge Dimorphos slightly, altering its orbit around Didymos enough to be observed by telescopes here on Earth. The effects of the collision will give scientists insight into how we might deflect a future Earth-bound asteroid and avert a disastrous collision with our planet.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_1980321\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2560px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1980321\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/35/2022/09/didymos-dimorphos-DART-NASA-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1497\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2022/09/didymos-dimorphos-DART-NASA-scaled.jpg 2560w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2022/09/didymos-dimorphos-DART-NASA-800x468.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2022/09/didymos-dimorphos-DART-NASA-1020x596.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2022/09/didymos-dimorphos-DART-NASA-160x94.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2022/09/didymos-dimorphos-DART-NASA-768x449.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2022/09/didymos-dimorphos-DART-NASA-1536x898.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2022/09/didymos-dimorphos-DART-NASA-2048x1197.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2022/09/didymos-dimorphos-DART-NASA-1920x1122.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Illustration of the binary asteroid system of Didymos and Dimorphos and the anticipated result of the collision by NASA’s DART spacecraft. The small ‘cubesat’ LICIACube will observe the impact and send images of the resulting blast back to Earth. \u003ccite>(NASA/DART)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">DART launched last November aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket from the Vandenberg Space Force Base in California.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">To be clear, Didymos and Dimorphos are \u003c/span>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">not\u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> on a collision course with Earth. At the time of DART’s arrival, the pair will be at their closest approach, a safe 6.7 million miles — or 28 times farther than the moon.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Targeting a double asteroid\u003c/b>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Didymos and Dimorphos are a\u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.esa.int/Space_Safety/Hera/Binary_asteroids_key_to_Earth_s_planetary_defence\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> binary asteroid\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> system, gravitationally bound to each other as they orbit the sun — a situation that\u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.nasa.gov/feature/dart-sets-sights-on-asteroid-target\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> NASA is taking advantage of\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> for this test.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">By giving a shove to the smaller Dimorphos, the tiny change in the moonlet’s orbit around its larger companion will be relatively easy to observe, compared to the far greater challenge of measuring the deviation in a solitary asteroid’s orbit around the sun. This is why a binary system was chosen as the target for the DART mission.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">At 535 feet across, Dimorphos is still about the size of the\u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.nationalgeographic.com/history/article/giza-pyramids\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> Great Pyramid of Giza\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> — so it might seem like a collision with a minuscule, 4-foot cube like DART would have little effect on it. But DART’s punch is in its speed, not its size.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Hurtling into the asteroid eight times faster than a bullet, DART will impart a punch of kinetic energy that should knock Dimorphos slightly closer to Didymos, thus decreasing the period of its orbit.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Dimorphos circles its larger companion once about every 12 hours. Scientists anticipate that DART will change the orbital period by a few minutes, which telescopes on Earth will be able to measure with precision.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Planetary protection\u003c/b>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">DART’s mission is to test the idea of altering the course of an asteroid bound for a collision with Earth, thus preventing a disaster of potentially global proportions.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">But how can a tiny deviation in the path of a cosmic juggernaut make a difference if the goal is to make it miss an entire planet?\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">The answer is: time.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Slapping a barreling bowling ball with a flyswatter probably won’t change whether it hits any bowling pins — but imagine if the bowling lane were 10 times longer than in a regulation alley. Then, even a tiny deviation in the ball’s path, if applied early enough, might grow to make the difference between a strike and a gutter ball.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_1980320\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 827px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1980320\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/35/2022/09/Didymos-Arecibo-radar-images-Arecibo-Observatory-NASA.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"827\" height=\"687\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2022/09/Didymos-Arecibo-radar-images-Arecibo-Observatory-NASA.png 827w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2022/09/Didymos-Arecibo-radar-images-Arecibo-Observatory-NASA-800x665.png 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2022/09/Didymos-Arecibo-radar-images-Arecibo-Observatory-NASA-160x133.png 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2022/09/Didymos-Arecibo-radar-images-Arecibo-Observatory-NASA-768x638.png 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 827px) 100vw, 827px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A series of radar images of the asteroid Didymos and its satellite Dimorphos, captured by the Arecibo Observatory in Puerto Rico. \u003ccite>(Arecibo Observatory/NASA)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">With advance warning of an impending asteroid collision, there can be time to mount a DART-like mission and give the incoming doomsday rock enough of a swat to miss the Earth when it finally arrives. Even a slight course correction can grow to hundreds or thousands of miles given enough time — a change that can make all the difference.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">NASA and other observers are constantly on the lookout for\u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://cneos.jpl.nasa.gov/about/neo_groups.html\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> potentially hazardous asteroids and comets\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">, and have discovered and track the motions of\u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://neo.ssa.esa.int/risk-list\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> thousands of near-Earth objects\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Vigilance and advance planning are the keys to protecting our planet from major asteroid impacts, and the DART mission is a first step in figuring out how to avoid disaster once we see it coming.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Lessons from the past\u003c/b>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Earth has been the recipient of numerous impacts by asteroids and comets in the past, many of them small, though some large enough to cause global devastation. The asteroid that scientists suspect led to the extinction of the dinosaurs was around 6 miles across and\u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.lpi.usra.edu/science/kring/Chicxulub/regional-effects/\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> struck the northern end of the Yucatan peninsula\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> over 65 million years ago.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Collisions by asteroids of that size are extremely rare, occurring on average every hundred million years, but\u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.planetary.org/notable-asteroid-impacts-in-earths-history\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> impacts by smaller asteroids\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> happen more often — the smaller the object, the more frequent the collision.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>DART and LICIACube\u003c/b>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Though DART’s terminal encounter with Dimorphos may seem a lonely end for a deep space robot, DART will not be alone at its demise. Like Didymos and its small moonlet companion, DART is accompanied by its own partner, a tiny “\u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.cubesat.org/\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">cubesat\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">” named\u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.asi.it/en/planets-stars-universe/solar-system-and-beyond/liciacube/\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> LICIACube\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_1980373\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 985px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1980373\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/35/2022/09/LICIACube_CubeSat_a_companion_satellite_of_Dart_Spacecraft.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"985\" height=\"657\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2022/09/LICIACube_CubeSat_a_companion_satellite_of_Dart_Spacecraft.jpg 985w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2022/09/LICIACube_CubeSat_a_companion_satellite_of_Dart_Spacecraft-800x534.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2022/09/LICIACube_CubeSat_a_companion_satellite_of_Dart_Spacecraft-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2022/09/LICIACube_CubeSat_a_companion_satellite_of_Dart_Spacecraft-768x512.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 985px) 100vw, 985px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">LICIACube, the small ‘cubesat’ accompanying NASA’s DART spacecraft on its collision course with the asteroid Dimorphos. Built by the Italian Space Agency, LICIACube will observe DART’s impact with Dimorphos and send the images back to Earth. \u003ccite>(NASA/Johns Hopkins APL/Ed Whitman)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Built by the\u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.asi.it/en/\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> Italian Space Agency\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">, LICIACube piggybacked on the DART spacecraft for most of its journey, and on September 11 was released to a separate destiny.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">LICIACube will spend the time all the way to the September 26 collision event gaining distance from DART and taking pictures of the asteroids as they approach.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Then, when DART strikes Dimorphos, it will snap pictures of the collision and the cloud of material blasted from the impact, sending the images back to Earth for scientists to study. The observations will tell us more about the structure and composition of Dimorphos to inform future asteroid-swatting missions.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">To be clear, Didymos and Dimorphos are \u003c/span>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">not\u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> on a collision course with Earth. At the time of DART’s arrival, the pair will be at their closest approach, a safe 6.7 million miles — or 28 times farther than the moon.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Targeting a double asteroid\u003c/b>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Didymos and Dimorphos are a\u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.esa.int/Space_Safety/Hera/Binary_asteroids_key_to_Earth_s_planetary_defence\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> binary asteroid\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> system, gravitationally bound to each other as they orbit the sun — a situation that\u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.nasa.gov/feature/dart-sets-sights-on-asteroid-target\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> NASA is taking advantage of\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> for this test.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">By giving a shove to the smaller Dimorphos, the tiny change in the moonlet’s orbit around its larger companion will be relatively easy to observe, compared to the far greater challenge of measuring the deviation in a solitary asteroid’s orbit around the sun. This is why a binary system was chosen as the target for the DART mission.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">At 535 feet across, Dimorphos is still about the size of the\u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.nationalgeographic.com/history/article/giza-pyramids\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> Great Pyramid of Giza\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> — so it might seem like a collision with a minuscule, 4-foot cube like DART would have little effect on it. But DART’s punch is in its speed, not its size.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Hurtling into the asteroid eight times faster than a bullet, DART will impart a punch of kinetic energy that should knock Dimorphos slightly closer to Didymos, thus decreasing the period of its orbit.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Dimorphos circles its larger companion once about every 12 hours. Scientists anticipate that DART will change the orbital period by a few minutes, which telescopes on Earth will be able to measure with precision.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Planetary protection\u003c/b>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">DART’s mission is to test the idea of altering the course of an asteroid bound for a collision with Earth, thus preventing a disaster of potentially global proportions.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">But how can a tiny deviation in the path of a cosmic juggernaut make a difference if the goal is to make it miss an entire planet?\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">The answer is: time.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Slapping a barreling bowling ball with a flyswatter probably won’t change whether it hits any bowling pins — but imagine if the bowling lane were 10 times longer than in a regulation alley. Then, even a tiny deviation in the ball’s path, if applied early enough, might grow to make the difference between a strike and a gutter ball.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_1980320\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 827px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1980320\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/35/2022/09/Didymos-Arecibo-radar-images-Arecibo-Observatory-NASA.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"827\" height=\"687\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2022/09/Didymos-Arecibo-radar-images-Arecibo-Observatory-NASA.png 827w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2022/09/Didymos-Arecibo-radar-images-Arecibo-Observatory-NASA-800x665.png 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2022/09/Didymos-Arecibo-radar-images-Arecibo-Observatory-NASA-160x133.png 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2022/09/Didymos-Arecibo-radar-images-Arecibo-Observatory-NASA-768x638.png 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 827px) 100vw, 827px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A series of radar images of the asteroid Didymos and its satellite Dimorphos, captured by the Arecibo Observatory in Puerto Rico. \u003ccite>(Arecibo Observatory/NASA)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">With advance warning of an impending asteroid collision, there can be time to mount a DART-like mission and give the incoming doomsday rock enough of a swat to miss the Earth when it finally arrives. Even a slight course correction can grow to hundreds or thousands of miles given enough time — a change that can make all the difference.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">NASA and other observers are constantly on the lookout for\u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://cneos.jpl.nasa.gov/about/neo_groups.html\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> potentially hazardous asteroids and comets\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">, and have discovered and track the motions of\u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://neo.ssa.esa.int/risk-list\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> thousands of near-Earth objects\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Vigilance and advance planning are the keys to protecting our planet from major asteroid impacts, and the DART mission is a first step in figuring out how to avoid disaster once we see it coming.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Lessons from the past\u003c/b>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Earth has been the recipient of numerous impacts by asteroids and comets in the past, many of them small, though some large enough to cause global devastation. The asteroid that scientists suspect led to the extinction of the dinosaurs was around 6 miles across and\u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.lpi.usra.edu/science/kring/Chicxulub/regional-effects/\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> struck the northern end of the Yucatan peninsula\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> over 65 million years ago.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Collisions by asteroids of that size are extremely rare, occurring on average every hundred million years, but\u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.planetary.org/notable-asteroid-impacts-in-earths-history\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> impacts by smaller asteroids\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> happen more often — the smaller the object, the more frequent the collision.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>DART and LICIACube\u003c/b>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Though DART’s terminal encounter with Dimorphos may seem a lonely end for a deep space robot, DART will not be alone at its demise. Like Didymos and its small moonlet companion, DART is accompanied by its own partner, a tiny “\u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.cubesat.org/\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">cubesat\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">” named\u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.asi.it/en/planets-stars-universe/solar-system-and-beyond/liciacube/\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> LICIACube\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_1980373\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 985px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1980373\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/35/2022/09/LICIACube_CubeSat_a_companion_satellite_of_Dart_Spacecraft.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"985\" height=\"657\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2022/09/LICIACube_CubeSat_a_companion_satellite_of_Dart_Spacecraft.jpg 985w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2022/09/LICIACube_CubeSat_a_companion_satellite_of_Dart_Spacecraft-800x534.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2022/09/LICIACube_CubeSat_a_companion_satellite_of_Dart_Spacecraft-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2022/09/LICIACube_CubeSat_a_companion_satellite_of_Dart_Spacecraft-768x512.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 985px) 100vw, 985px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">LICIACube, the small ‘cubesat’ accompanying NASA’s DART spacecraft on its collision course with the asteroid Dimorphos. 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"content": "\u003cp>The James Webb Space Telescope has wowed astronomers and everyday people alike with its stunning images of \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/sections/pictureshow/2022/07/12/1111002820/webb-telescope-images-nasa\">distant galaxies\u003c/a> and Earth’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2022/08/23/1118959461/jupiter-james-webb-telescope-photos-nasa\">nearby neighbors\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now the $10 billion deep space telescope has brought what NASA calls \u003ca href=\"https://www.nasa.gov/feature/goddard/2022/new-webb-image-captures-clearest-view-of-neptune-s-rings-in-decades\">the clearest image of Neptune’s rings\u003c/a> seen in more than 30 years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The telescope delivered an image of the ice giant Neptune as well as seven of 14 of the known moons orbiting the planet, \u003ca href=\"https://www.nasa.gov/feature/goddard/2022/new-webb-image-captures-clearest-view-of-neptune-s-rings-in-decades\">NASA said\u003c/a>. The picture also shows faint dust bands around the planet.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It has been three decades since we last saw these faint, dusty rings, and this is the first time we’ve seen them in the infrared,” said Heidi Hammel, a Neptune system expert and interdisciplinary scientist for the Webb project.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hammel \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/hbhammel/status/1572575649231171584\">tweeted\u003c/a>, “I ugy-cried when I saw THE FIRST JWST NEPTUNE IMAGES! “O M G – LOOK AT THE RINGS” I was yelling, making my kids, my mom, even my cats look.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n\u003cblockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\">\n\u003cp lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Not gonna lie. I ugy-cried when I saw THE FIRST JWST NEPTUNE IMAGES! \"O M G - LOOK AT THE RINGS\" I was yelling, making my kids, my mom, even my cats look. More than 20 years in the making, and JWST delivered. \u003ca href=\"https://t.co/48bxjAlztC\">https://t.co/48bxjAlztC\u003c/a> \u003ca href=\"https://t.co/qPtiW2hyFm\">pic.twitter.com/qPtiW2hyFm\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>— Dr Heidi B. Hammel (@hbhammel) \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/hbhammel/status/1572575649231171584?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">September 21, 2022\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003c/div>\n\u003cp>Neptune typically appears blue, attributed to methane in the atmosphere, but pictures from Webb’s infrared camera show the planet whiter in color. The new photo shows thin lines of beautiful light around Neptune, which NASA says are high-altitude methane-ice clouds reflecting sunlight.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_1980389\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1980389\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/35/2022/09/RS58807_pia01492-main-qut-800x799.jpg\" alt=\"This picture of Neptune was taken by Voyager 2 less than five days before the probe's closest approach of the planet on Aug. 25, 1989. The picture shows the "Great Dark Spot" — a storm in Neptune's atmosphere — and the bright, light-blue smudge of clouds that accompanies the storm.\" width=\"800\" height=\"799\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2022/09/RS58807_pia01492-main-qut-800x799.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2022/09/RS58807_pia01492-main-qut-160x160.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2022/09/RS58807_pia01492-main-qut-768x767.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2022/09/RS58807_pia01492-main-qut.jpg 985w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Neptune typically appears blue in photographs due to methane gas in the atmosphere. This image of the ice giant was taken in 1989 by the Voyager 2, the only spacecraft to travel to the planet. \u003ccite>(NASA)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>One of Neptune’s moons, Triton, can also be seen in the photo. But, because of diffraction spikes in the image, one could easily mistake it for a distant star. Triton’s surface is covered in frozen, condensed nitrogen, which reflects an average of 70% of the sun’s rays, NASA said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The image of the rings is the crispest seen since 1989, when NASA’s \u003ca href=\"https://voyager.jpl.nasa.gov/galleries/images-voyager-took/neptune/\">Voyager 2\u003c/a> became the first spacecraft to cruise by Neptune, located approximately 2.8 billion miles from Earth — more than 30 times the distance from Earth to the sun.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Neptune is the most distant planet in our solar system (Pluto was demoted to \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2015/07/13/421840110/planet-or-not-icy-pluto-to-finally-get-its-day-in-the-sun\">a dwarf planet\u003c/a> in 2006), taking 165 Earth years to complete its orbit. 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"content": "\u003cp>The last supermoon of this year, the Sturgeon Moon, brightened our night skies in August.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The supermoon appears bigger and brighter than your usual full moon. \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/author/ben-burress\">Ben Burress, staff astronomer at Oakland’s Chabot Space and Science Center\u003c/a>, says that if you could \u003ca href=\"https://moon.nasa.gov/diy-moon-orbit/\">compare the full moon\u003c/a> at apogee (sometimes called a “micromoon”) and the perigee supermoon side by side, the difference in size would look the same as a penny and a nickel held at arm’s length.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Did \u003cem>you\u003c/em> get a chance to witness this spectacular event? Here’s a sampling of photos from all around the world.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/KQEDscience\">Follow @KQEDScience on Twitter\u003c/a> for the latest updates on astronomical events to watch out for.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_1980017\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1980017\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/35/2022/08/RS57754_GettyImages-1242448264-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"The Sturgeon supermoon, the final supermoon of the year, rises over the Royal Liver Building in Liverpool. Picture date: Thursday August 11, 2022. (Photo by Peter Byrne/PA Images via Getty Images)\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2022/08/RS57754_GettyImages-1242448264-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2022/08/RS57754_GettyImages-1242448264-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2022/08/RS57754_GettyImages-1242448264-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2022/08/RS57754_GettyImages-1242448264-qut-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2022/08/RS57754_GettyImages-1242448264-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2022/08/RS57754_GettyImages-1242448264-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Sturgeon supermoon, the final supermoon of the year, rises over the Royal Liver Building in Liverpool. Picture date: Thursday August 11, 2022. \u003ccite>(Peter Byrne/PA Images via Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_1980018\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1980018\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/35/2022/08/RS57757_GettyImages-1414284786-qut-800x534.jpg\" alt=\"The Sturgeon full moon rises next to Istanbul's Camlica Mosque on August 11, 2022 in Istanbul, Turkey. The Sturgeon Moon is the last super-moon of 2022. (Photo by Chris McGrath/Getty Images)\" width=\"800\" height=\"534\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2022/08/RS57757_GettyImages-1414284786-qut-800x534.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2022/08/RS57757_GettyImages-1414284786-qut-1020x681.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2022/08/RS57757_GettyImages-1414284786-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2022/08/RS57757_GettyImages-1414284786-qut-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2022/08/RS57757_GettyImages-1414284786-qut-1536x1025.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2022/08/RS57757_GettyImages-1414284786-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Sturgeon full moon rises next to Istanbul’s Camlica Mosque on August 11, 2022 in Istanbul, Turkey. The Sturgeon Moon is the last super-moon of 2022. \u003ccite>(Chris McGrath/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_1980013\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1980013\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/35/2022/08/RS57746_GettyImages-1414339576-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"The moon is obscured by clouds as it passes behind the Washington Monument on August 11, 2022 in Washington, DC. The so-called Sturgeon Moon is the fourth and final super moon of 2022. \" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2022/08/RS57746_GettyImages-1414339576-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2022/08/RS57746_GettyImages-1414339576-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2022/08/RS57746_GettyImages-1414339576-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2022/08/RS57746_GettyImages-1414339576-qut-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2022/08/RS57746_GettyImages-1414339576-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2022/08/RS57746_GettyImages-1414339576-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The moon is obscured by clouds as it passes behind the Washington Monument on August 11, 2022 in Washington, DC. The so-called Sturgeon Moon is the fourth and final super moon of 2022. \u003ccite>(Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_1980014\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1980014\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/35/2022/08/RS57749_GettyImages-1242446109-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"The last supermoon of the year rises over Lower Manhattan of New York City, United States on August 11, 2022. (Photo by Tayfun Coskun/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2022/08/RS57749_GettyImages-1242446109-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2022/08/RS57749_GettyImages-1242446109-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2022/08/RS57749_GettyImages-1242446109-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2022/08/RS57749_GettyImages-1242446109-qut-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2022/08/RS57749_GettyImages-1242446109-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2022/08/RS57749_GettyImages-1242446109-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The last supermoon of the year rises over Lower Manhattan of New York City, United States on August 11, 2022. \u003ccite>(Tayfun Coskun/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_1980015\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1980015\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/35/2022/08/RS57752_GettyImages-1242448353-qut-800x505.jpg\" alt=\"The Sturgeon supermoon, the final supermoon of the year, rises behind Edinburgh Castle. Picture date: Thursday August 11, 2022. (Photo by Jane Barlow/PA Images via Getty Images)\" width=\"800\" height=\"505\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2022/08/RS57752_GettyImages-1242448353-qut-800x505.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2022/08/RS57752_GettyImages-1242448353-qut-1020x644.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2022/08/RS57752_GettyImages-1242448353-qut-160x101.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2022/08/RS57752_GettyImages-1242448353-qut-768x485.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2022/08/RS57752_GettyImages-1242448353-qut-1536x970.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2022/08/RS57752_GettyImages-1242448353-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Sturgeon supermoon, the final supermoon of the year, rises behind Edinburgh Castle. Picture date: Thursday August 11, 2022. \u003ccite>(Jane Barlow/PA Images via Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_1980016\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1980016\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/35/2022/08/RS57753_GettyImages-1414372479-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"The Super Moon sinks behind the Hagia Sophia Mosque on August 11, 2022 in Istanbul, Turkey. (Photo by Hakan Akgun/dia images via Getty Images)\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2022/08/RS57753_GettyImages-1414372479-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2022/08/RS57753_GettyImages-1414372479-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2022/08/RS57753_GettyImages-1414372479-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2022/08/RS57753_GettyImages-1414372479-qut-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2022/08/RS57753_GettyImages-1414372479-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2022/08/RS57753_GettyImages-1414372479-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Super Moon sinks behind the Hagia Sophia Mosque on August 11, 2022 in Istanbul, Turkey. \u003ccite>(Hakan Akgun/dia images via Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_1980020\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1980020\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/35/2022/08/RS57759_GettyImages-1242443522-qut-800x492.jpg\" alt=\"The Sturgeon supermoon, the final supermoon of the year rises over Dunstanburgh Castle in Northumberland. Picture date: Thursday August 11, 2022. (Photo by Owen Humphreys/PA Images via Getty Images)\" width=\"800\" height=\"492\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2022/08/RS57759_GettyImages-1242443522-qut-800x492.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2022/08/RS57759_GettyImages-1242443522-qut-1020x627.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2022/08/RS57759_GettyImages-1242443522-qut-160x98.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2022/08/RS57759_GettyImages-1242443522-qut-768x472.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2022/08/RS57759_GettyImages-1242443522-qut-1536x945.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2022/08/RS57759_GettyImages-1242443522-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Sturgeon supermoon, the final supermoon of the year rises over Dunstanburgh Castle in Northumberland. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>The last supermoon of this year, the Sturgeon Moon, brightened our night skies in August.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The supermoon appears bigger and brighter than your usual full moon. \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/author/ben-burress\">Ben Burress, staff astronomer at Oakland’s Chabot Space and Science Center\u003c/a>, says that if you could \u003ca href=\"https://moon.nasa.gov/diy-moon-orbit/\">compare the full moon\u003c/a> at apogee (sometimes called a “micromoon”) and the perigee supermoon side by side, the difference in size would look the same as a penny and a nickel held at arm’s length.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Did \u003cem>you\u003c/em> get a chance to witness this spectacular event? Here’s a sampling of photos from all around the world.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/KQEDscience\">Follow @KQEDScience on Twitter\u003c/a> for the latest updates on astronomical events to watch out for.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_1980017\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1980017\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/35/2022/08/RS57754_GettyImages-1242448264-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"The Sturgeon supermoon, the final supermoon of the year, rises over the Royal Liver Building in Liverpool. Picture date: Thursday August 11, 2022. (Photo by Peter Byrne/PA Images via Getty Images)\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2022/08/RS57754_GettyImages-1242448264-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2022/08/RS57754_GettyImages-1242448264-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2022/08/RS57754_GettyImages-1242448264-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2022/08/RS57754_GettyImages-1242448264-qut-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2022/08/RS57754_GettyImages-1242448264-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2022/08/RS57754_GettyImages-1242448264-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Sturgeon supermoon, the final supermoon of the year, rises over the Royal Liver Building in Liverpool. Picture date: Thursday August 11, 2022. \u003ccite>(Peter Byrne/PA Images via Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_1980018\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1980018\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/35/2022/08/RS57757_GettyImages-1414284786-qut-800x534.jpg\" alt=\"The Sturgeon full moon rises next to Istanbul's Camlica Mosque on August 11, 2022 in Istanbul, Turkey. The Sturgeon Moon is the last super-moon of 2022. (Photo by Chris McGrath/Getty Images)\" width=\"800\" height=\"534\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2022/08/RS57757_GettyImages-1414284786-qut-800x534.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2022/08/RS57757_GettyImages-1414284786-qut-1020x681.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2022/08/RS57757_GettyImages-1414284786-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2022/08/RS57757_GettyImages-1414284786-qut-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2022/08/RS57757_GettyImages-1414284786-qut-1536x1025.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2022/08/RS57757_GettyImages-1414284786-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Sturgeon full moon rises next to Istanbul’s Camlica Mosque on August 11, 2022 in Istanbul, Turkey. The Sturgeon Moon is the last super-moon of 2022. \u003ccite>(Chris McGrath/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_1980013\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1980013\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/35/2022/08/RS57746_GettyImages-1414339576-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"The moon is obscured by clouds as it passes behind the Washington Monument on August 11, 2022 in Washington, DC. The so-called Sturgeon Moon is the fourth and final super moon of 2022. \" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2022/08/RS57746_GettyImages-1414339576-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2022/08/RS57746_GettyImages-1414339576-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2022/08/RS57746_GettyImages-1414339576-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2022/08/RS57746_GettyImages-1414339576-qut-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2022/08/RS57746_GettyImages-1414339576-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2022/08/RS57746_GettyImages-1414339576-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The moon is obscured by clouds as it passes behind the Washington Monument on August 11, 2022 in Washington, DC. 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