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Ever stared down the gaping eye of a category 4 hurricane? It's chilling, even from space.

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Astronomy news update from NASA :
Our Moon's appearance changes nightly. As the Moon orbits the Earth, the half illuminated by the Sun first becomes increasingly visible, then decreasingly visible. The featured video animates images taken by NASA's Moon-orbiting Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter to show all 12 lunations that appear this year, 2018. A single lunation describes one full cycle of our Moon, including all of its phases. A full lunation takes about 29.5 days, just under a month (moon-th). As each lunation progresses, sunlight reflects from the Moon at different angles, and so illuminates different features differently. During all of this, of course, the Moon always keeps the same face toward the Earth. What is less apparent night-to-night is that the Moon's apparent size changes slightly, and that a slight wobble called a libration occurs as the Moon progresses along its elliptical orbit.

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Our new 'Word Of The Day' article update : nitty , adj :
Full of nits. (chiefly Britain, slang) Foolish, inane. […] (Excessively) detailed, specific; fastidious, fussy, nit-picky. (poker slang) Of a poker player: playing in an overly cautious and reactive manner. […] (obsolete, rare) Shining; elegant, spruce.