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What makes total solar eclipses so special? 🌑 Why don't they happen every month? 📅 And how can the Moon block a Sun that's 400x larger? ☀️ All the answers here 👉 https://www.esa.int/ESA_Multimedia/Videos/2026/07/Why_total_solar_eclipses_are_so_special 🔭 🧪 1/2
Why total solar eclipses are so specialwww.esa.int
I attempted to put upper and lower bounds on what it would cost to repurpose Perseverance's testbed twin and send it to the Moon. It's not the cheap and fast mission people hope it is. www.planetary.org/articles/the...
The Cost of a PROMISENASA may send an engineering test of the Perseverance rover to the Moon, but at what price?www.planetary.org
Tonight, and especially tomorrow night, the Waxing Crescent Moon appears close to Venus. Look West after sunset from around 10pm. 🔭 🧪
Qualia goes where curiosity leads. This week, columnist Natalie Wolchover tracks the secret of left-handedness through developmental biology, genetics, evolution, and culture. www.quantamagazine.org/why-am-i-lef...
Why Am I Left-Handed? | Quanta MagazineAn invisible difference in 10% of humans poses deep mysteries in several fields at once.www.quantamagazine.org
Four weeks on Wednesday, there will be a #SolarEclipse visible as a partial eclipse across large parts of North America and Western Europe, and some of Africa. If you are very lucky, you will be in just the right place to see a total eclipse: eastern Greenland, western Iceland, northern Spain.
Fery d. Dimitrov 7-5 3-6 4-6 6-4 7-6(7) UNBELIEVABLE. Down a break twice in the 4th set Wildcard & World No. 114 beats the former world No. 3 to reach his first Grand Slam QF The 5th wildcard in history to reach the Wimbledon QF The British dream is still alive… do you believe in miracles? 🇬🇧
🌍☀️ Happy Aphelion 2026! Today (July 6) Earth is at its FARTHEST from the Sun all year: 94.5 million miles — in the middle of northern summer! 🏖️ It's tilt, not distance, that makes the seasons. 🎯 "A" is for "Away!" 🔗 bit.ly/aphelion-2026 #Aphelion2026 #Astronomy
Lou Donaldson's 1968 album "Say It Loud" opens with a firmly in-the-pocket version of James Brown’s “Say It Loud (I’m Black and I’m Proud).” Hear it on our "Blue Groove" playlist: bluenote.lnk.to/BlueGroove Get the Classic Vinyl Edition: store.bluenote.com/products/lou...
“Wayne Shorter said something really beautiful that I liked some years ago” Nduduzo Makhathini says. “His idea was to ‘play & write music the way you want the world to be,’ the world that you hope for. That’s always my purpose.” “The Myth We Choose” out now nduduzomakhathini.lnk.to/TheMythWeCho...