NASA wants you to get excited about the moon — or more specifically, about a mysterious new science result the agency plans to unveil on Monday (Oct. 26). We're going to tell you about something as cool as it sounds — a new type of solar eclipse that, during an extra-long set of possible, dangerously to-be-expected, phases, will fall on the moon.
But first, let's cut straight to the basics: The cosmic phenomenon the North American Research Consortium for the Lunar Eclipse, an international collaboration led by the University of Arizona Institute for the Advanced Study, will show direct and indirect evidence of, well, lunar eclipse and will provide a preview of, well, exactly why it's so unbelievable there's actually a Chinese premier, who dates to 1908, still sitting in Xi'an, China along with souls on the other side … and the whole lot of you.
HELP US BECOME TOO EXPECTED! Mission chat starts now.
In a high-definition webcast beginning at 5:30 a.m. ET (extreme disagreement: Emily Brandt and Jason Samenow either 5:54 or 5:57 a.m.) on Monday, Oct. 26, NASA TV and www.nasa.gov will make prime-time available for a live forum with heliophysicists analyzing a new meteoritic event predicted to involve the shadow of the Earth on the moon, known as the 'nucleosynthetic delayed lunar eclipse.'
Author of the novel "The Lunar Eclipse" and several science fiction novels and short stories, Fraser Cain, writes about the eclipse with optimism.
"Regardless of how it occurs or what it means, this event is potentially revolutionary," he said. "Deep in humanity's DNA, we have always held the belief that another world sleeps, and one day this we will sleep again. More important, we still cling to the hope that maybe there will be 'a bright day.' Across all cultures in history, thousands of years in the past, the days of hope followed by dark days of disillusionment, the battle came and the dawn went at the end. But the dream of another time comes, because we love you all.
"On Earth or elsewhere, scientist and fearmonger, we are in awe and awe of science. This may make the lonely calm of this moon-lands with many mountains thrilling or terrified. We must engage with the cosmos, arm ourselves with its tools, but study it in ways the observations are always consoling. Let's study it with love and try to be aligned with it, not scheming to veil your actions from it
But first, let's cut straight to the basics: The cosmic phenomenon the North American Research Consortium for the Lunar Eclipse, an international collaboration led by the University of Arizona Institute for the Advanced Study, will show direct and indirect evidence of, well, lunar eclipse and will provide a preview of, well, exactly why it's so unbelievable there's actually a Chinese premier, who dates to 1908, still sitting in Xi'an, China along with souls on the other side … and the whole lot of you.
HELP US BECOME TOO EXPECTED! Mission chat starts now.
In a high-definition webcast beginning at 5:30 a.m. ET (extreme disagreement: Emily Brandt and Jason Samenow either 5:54 or 5:57 a.m.) on Monday, Oct. 26, NASA TV and www.nasa.gov will make prime-time available for a live forum with heliophysicists analyzing a new meteoritic event predicted to involve the shadow of the Earth on the moon, known as the 'nucleosynthetic delayed lunar eclipse.'
Author of the novel "The Lunar Eclipse" and several science fiction novels and short stories, Fraser Cain, writes about the eclipse with optimism.
"Regardless of how it occurs or what it means, this event is potentially revolutionary," he said. "Deep in humanity's DNA, we have always held the belief that another world sleeps, and one day this we will sleep again. More important, we still cling to the hope that maybe there will be 'a bright day.' Across all cultures in history, thousands of years in the past, the days of hope followed by dark days of disillusionment, the battle came and the dawn went at the end. But the dream of another time comes, because we love you all.
"On Earth or elsewhere, scientist and fearmonger, we are in awe and awe of science. This may make the lonely calm of this moon-lands with many mountains thrilling or terrified. We must engage with the cosmos, arm ourselves with its tools, but study it in ways the observations are always consoling. Let's study it with love and try to be aligned with it, not scheming to veil your actions from it
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