NASA's visualization team created a beautiful preview of every phase of the Moon in 2025, hour by hour.
The best part: Watching how the Moon's appearance changes due to its inclination, oval orbit, and libration (wobble).
https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/5415 #science #nature #nasa #astronomy #space
@coreyspowell I love how it moves closer and farther, rotating just a bit in the process.
@coreyspowell @drahardja Luna has the cutest wobble.
Purism? None of that. You can rotate the unlabeled version for use in the southern hemisphere without getting irritated by the upside-down text.
US-based astronomers are a bunch of flatlanders, as always.
@coreyspowell Is the rocking, or wobble, part of the natural oscillation of the moon or is it caused by the changing perspective of the earth?