US Edition2 Spooky Flashes Lit Up the Moon. Here’s What Made Them.
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An astronomy enthusiast in Japan has observed them, and they remind us of what the atmosphere is for.
The Moon may seem like a quiet place, but it is not at all. It receives the frequent bombardment of space rocks that, without the brake of the atmosphere, impact on its surface. That is why it is full of craters. On Thursday 30 October and Saturday 1 November, a Japanese astronomer, Daichi Fujii, curator of the Hiratsuka City Museum, captured with a telescope the flashes of two of those impacts against the lunar surface. The bursts of light, vis…
Last week, a few telescopes captured the impact of an object against the Moon. Then, during the weekend, a second object pierced its silver surface. Both incidents served as a reminder that the moon is not so much the serene orb that we see clearly in the night sky some nights a month, but rather a noisy battlefield that constantly wins new craters. The two lunar impacts were detected by Daichi Fujii, curator of the Hiratsuka City Museum in Japa…
In just 48 hours, the crash of two asteroids has been detected on the surface of the Moon. Events that remind us of how regularly our satellite is affected by such impacts, which alters the physiognomy of its surface. The Moon has two new craters. Japanese astronomer Daichi Fujii, who
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