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Elizabeth Brown was a mathematician and musician whose work in celestial mechanics and combinatorial game theory shaped mid-20th-century research. This profile outlines her veri...
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An eclipse season is a roughly 34 to 37 day period during which the Sun is close enough to one of the Moon’s nodal points for an eclipse to occur if the geometry aligns. Eclip...
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The Moon circles Earth, so which planet is closest to the Moon right now is not fixed. At any moment, the nearest planet can be Mercury, Venus, or Mars depending on their positi...
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Retrograde describes an apparent backward, or westward, motion of a planet or moon across the sky relative to the steady background of stars. This is not a real reversal of orbi...
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The Moon does not remain fixed in the sky; it is in a constant, well-understood dance with Earth. Its changing geometry produces orbit variations, apparent size and brightness s...
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The planet you see in the eastern sky depends on the time of night, time of year, and each planet’s orbit. In the evening, Venus often appears low in the west after sunset, so...
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In astronomy, retrograde describes the apparent backward motion of a planet or celestial body as observed from Earth. This is not a change in the body’s orbit but an optical e...
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The phrase Wednesday star most often describes a distinct star (or sometimes a small asterism) that appears near the waning crescent Moon in the early dawn sky on or around Wedn...
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