Tag: Magentar

Next week’s night sky: On Thursday, the golden handle appears on the moon. The “Golden Handle” effect is produced by the way the slanted sunlight lights up the prominent mountains of the moon. Best seen through some sort of magnification, the golden handle will appear as a small line trailing from the light side of the moon to the dark side. How do we detect invisible dark matter? Dark matter neither absorbs nor gives off light, which is why astronomers have named it dark. But because dark […]