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-5 posts tagged "Moon"
Kelsey Quint | Thursday, August 31, 2023
Last night was the first time the sky saw a blue moon since 2021, with a second occurrence happening tonight, August 31. But, what exactly is a blue moon? Contrary to the name, a blue moon is no different in color than any other night – it is not blue at all. Valeria Bautista Misakova,
Annie Brown | Thursday, February 9, 2023
Deep in the labyrinthine corridors of Cushing Hall, among engineering labs and dusty lockers, one can find the office of professor Clive R. Neal. Instead of the typical plain, weathered oak of the nearby doors, Neal’s is covered in “Doctor Who” posters and crayon-drawn pictures torn from coloring books. Given the chance to look, visitors
Ryan Peters | Monday, November 14, 2022
When Jon Olansen was a child, he wanted to be an astronaut. This dream doesn’t pan out for most children, but Olansen, a Notre Dame alumnus, has come close to living it out. Although he personally will not be walking on the moon, Olansen has spent the past three decades enabling astronauts to travel to
Nora McGreevy | Thursday, January 24, 2019
If you were standing on the surface of the moon late Sunday night during the lunar eclipse, this is what you would have seen: the dark shadow of the Earth obscuring the sun. The sun itself hidden from view, a few rogue rays of light shoot around the edges of the shadow creating an uneven,
Stephen Raab | Monday, September 28, 2015
Pope Francis’s encyclical “Laudato si” and his recent speech to the United States Congress have both reignited the discussion over climate change, its effects on future human life and what steps we can take to combat it. Some, including students at Notre Dame, have suggested divestment from fossil fuel industries. Others believe that cap-and-trade legislation