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Lunar Sunrise, Lunar Sunset

August 24, 2018 by Brian Ventrudo Filed Under: Astronomy Images and Video


The folks at NASA Goddard in Greenbelt, MD, have put together a glorious video of an accelerated sunrise and sunset on the Moon that will reward you with some of the finest images ever taken of our nearest neighbor, and perhaps inspire you to see some of these features with your own telescope. NASA set this visualization of sunrises and sunsets on the Moon to the strains of Claude Debussy’s most famous work, Clair de Lune. Watch the whole thing. It’s a great way to spend a few minutes.

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Animated Flyover of Dwarf Planet Ceres

February 4, 2016 by Brian Ventrudo Filed Under: Solar System

NASA’s Jet Propulsion Lab has released this simulated but rather stirring flyover of the dwarf planet Ceres, the largest denizen of the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter. Using hundreds of images from NASA’s Dawn spacecraft, a team at Germany’s national space center (DLR) created a video that gives you a close-up of the most striking features of this little world.

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