{"id":787512,"date":"2024-08-20T02:49:52","date_gmt":"2024-08-20T07:49:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=787512"},"modified":"2024-08-20T02:49:52","modified_gmt":"2024-08-20T07:49:52","slug":"ahead-of-the-blue-supermoon-heres-trivia-about-earths-moon-short-wave-npr","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=787512","title":{"rendered":"Ahead of the blue supermoon, here’s trivia about Earth’s moon : Short Wave : NPR"},"content":{"rendered":"


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\n During its 1997 flight, the Galileo spacecraft returned images of the Moon. This color picture is a mosaic assembled from 18 images taken by Galileo’s imaging system through a green filter.
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During its 1997 flight, the Galileo spacecraft returned images of the Moon. This color picture is a mosaic assembled from 18 images taken by Galileo’s imaging system through a green filter.<\/p>\n

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All summer long, Short Wave <\/em>has been on a 10-episode odyssey through the changing universe. We’ve covered planets, stars, life in space and even the possible ends<\/em> of the universe. <\/p>\n

But there was one big set of objects that we skipped over: moons. <\/p>\n

So now we’re back, with a special guest appearance from Radiolab<\/em>‘s Latif Nasser, to talk about yes, our moon \u2014 and the many moons and quasi-moons beyond it. Where did our Moon come from? How many moons are out there? What’s this “quasi-moon” of which we speak and why is it “dancing” around space? <\/p>\n