EarthSky News - March 28 - Very Young Moon Tonight

March 28 Very Young Moon Tonight by:

Tonight ... See a very young moon North America has a great shot at a heartbreakingly slim young moon, in the west after sunset. Wherever you are, if you miss the moon tonight, try again Wednesday evening. Watch a full rotation of the moon Wonderful video from the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter, a NASA spacecraft in a polar orbit around the moon since 2009. The moon as you've never seen it! Super halos around very young galaxies Astronomers directly observed a pair of Milky-Way-like galaxies, seen when the universe was 8% of its current age. They were excited to find the young galaxies surrounded by huge halos. So long, last North American ice sheet The last remnant of a once-enormous ice sheet will be gone in about 300 years, according to a new study. Scientists say warming temperatures are the reason.

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Tonight ... See a very young moon Then watch the moon move up past Mercury and Mars in the coming few evenings.

Orion from the Southern Hemisphere See the 3 stars of Orion's Belt in the upper right of this photo? The large, reddish cloud-like region on the lower left is the Gum Nebula. Photo by Yuri Beletsky. Submit your photo to EarthSky here!

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