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A full moon sinking behind San Gorgonio Mountain, California, on a midsummer morning. Moonrise and moonset are times when the upper limb of the Moon appears above the horizon and disappears below it, respectively. The exact times depend on the lunar phase and declination, as well as the observer's location.
Thursday's astronomical event will be best seen one to two hours after sunset before the trio sets in the western sky. Sunset on Thursday takes place at 5:40 p.m. EST in New York City, 5:33 p.m ...
Chicago's streak of warmer-than-normal days ended today, with temperatures dropping to the mid-20s and a cold week ahead. A potential storm system early next week may bring snow to the area, with ...
The Moon is Earth's only natural satellite.It orbits around Earth at an average distance of 384,400 km (238,900 mi), about 30 times the width of Earth. Tidal forces between Earth and the Moon have synchronized the Moon's orbital period (lunar month) with its rotation period at 29.5 Earth days, causing the same side of the Moon to always face Earth.
“Today for the first time in more than a half century, the U.S. has returned to the moon.” Altemus had estimated that Odysseus had an 80% chance of successfully landing on the moon, citing ...
Time in Arizona, as in all U.S. states, is regulated by the United States Department of Transportation [1] as well as by state and tribal law. All of Arizona is in the Mountain Time Zone . [ 2 ] Since 1968, most of the state—except the Navajo Nation —does not observe daylight saving time and remains on Mountain Standard Time (MST) all year.
In some years that starts right as the new year arrives. On Jan. 2, 1999, 26 years ago today, a major snowstorm hammered the Midwest. ... In Chicago, what was already a disruptive snowstorm was ...
A total solar eclipse occurred at the Moon's ascending node of orbit between Monday, September 10, and Tuesday, September 11, 1923, [1] with a magnitude of 1.043. A solar eclipse occurs when the Moon passes between Earth and the Sun , thereby totally or partly obscuring the image of the Sun for a viewer on Earth.