Moon phases for 2013

[likethebeer]

Here's a mesmerizing little video from NASA:
http://www.slate.com/blogs/bad_astronomy/2012/11/21/lunar_phases_2013_hour_by_hour_depiction_of_the_moon_s_phase_for_the_whole.html

"Bad Astronomer" (Phil Plait) put it up on Slate. I knew of him (mda liked him), but I didn't want to go searching (to painful to think about) - but he came to me! It's nice, he posts things a couple of days a week.

If you've got the time I recommend going through and watching other videos, too. I saw one on Earth's tectonic plate movement, how we're going to end up merged with the Andromeda galaxy,¹ and a few others.

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¹I wish we weren't just going to turn into an elliptical galaxy - basically just a big blob. Of course, that will end in about 6 billion years so I don't have to worry about it.

Comments

[marswalker.livejournal.com]

Yep - that galactic time scale thing trumps even geological time scales...

galactic time

[likethebeer.livejournal.com]

I try to remember that as people conceive of the end of the universe. One of those things that I *really* need to not worry about.