Word: moons
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...many of us, if there is a dark side of the moon here on earth, North Korea is it. On and off for the better part of 20 years, from postings in Tokyo, Moscow, Beijing and now Shanghai, I have been covering North Korea - to the extent that a journalist can cover a place he has actually never been to. Three times previously, I had applied for an official journalist's visa to do reporting in the North - to no avail. Partly, I've always assumed, that's because I'm a U.S. citizen, and we have been technically...
Total lunar eclipses occur when the sun, earth, and moon are in perfect alignment, an event that won’t occur again until 2010, according to NASA. The last lunar eclipse was on August 28th...
...event was organized via e-mail by Daniel A. Handlin ’11, who noted that many people were attracted to the observatory by word of mouth and by CNN reports of the eclipse. According to Handlin, who is also a Crimson news writer, the moon was tinted red because of atmospheric disturbance. Clouds prevented the sight from being crystal clear, but Handlin said that the visibility was “better than I thought it would...
...dark, crowded room on the tenth floor of the Science Center last night, students took turns looking through a telescope at an uncommon sight: the moon darkened rust-red by the shadow of the earth...
...happening so fast,” said Robin W. Reinert ’10, who could not remember the last time she saw a lunar eclipse. She added, “I’m surprised that the part that’s left is brighter than when the moon is in a crescent...