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For 1,000 years people have seen strange lights on the Moon

According to the science of transient lunar phenomena, observers have reported brief lights, colors, and hazes on the Moon for at least a thousand years, and astronomers still cannot fully explain them. The British astronomer Patrick Moore coined the term for a 1968 NASA catalog of reported lunar events. — Read the rest The post For 1,000 years people have seen strange lights on the Moon appeared first on Boing Boing.
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