Whiting

Full Moons vary in size because of the oval shape of the Moon's orbit. It is an ellipse with one side (perigee) about 50,000 km closer to Earth than the other (apogee): [|diagram]. Nearby perigee moons are about 14% bigger and 30% brighter than lesser moons that occur on the apogee side of the Moon's orbit.









In the strictest and most exact sense, there are currently 14 known black holes.

We are moving through space at the rate of 530km a second.

The moon is drifting away from Earth.

The light hitting the earth right now is 30 thousand years old.

You can not look directly at the sun or else it will start to kill you retna in your eye.

Equinox is in a period in the orbit of a planet in which the planet's orbit and position cause the Sun to pass directly over the equator.