moon
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Some famously came up with an elaborate theory, external suggesting an image of the moon included in a promotional post for GTA Online held clues to the release date of GTA 6's first trailer.
From BBC ● Aug. 21, 2026
Elsewhere on the island of Oahu, students at the University of Hawaii make equipment bound for the moon.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 20, 2026
The agendas also contained a distorted periodic table, unreadable phases of the moon and other garbled educational material that parents suspect may have been created using artificial intelligence.
From Salon ● Aug. 15, 2026
So if you were to call the Omega Speedmaster Reduced the first watch to go to the moon, they’d be the first to tell you that you’re wrong.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 14, 2026
Nonetheless, the moon and stars are hopeful, bright.
From "Will’s Race for Home" by Jewell Parker Rhodes
One theory for the origin of the Martian moons -- the "giant impact" hypothesis -- is that they formed after a celestial body collided with Mars.
From Barron's ● Aug. 16, 2026
The spacecraft will also observe Demios, the other of Mars' moons -- but without landing -- before a return capsule heads back to Earth to land in Australia in around 2031.
From Barron's ● Aug. 16, 2026
A Caltech led team used Webb to study Neptune's rings along with three of its inner moons, Larissa, Galatea, and Proteus.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 14, 2026
Neptune stands out among the planets because it does not have a "typical" system of large, orderly moons.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 14, 2026
She turns back and hits the button on the wall, sucking out the golden light of Sagan’s sun and moons as it slides shut.
From "The Last Cuentista" by Donna Barba Higuera
Perkins: What’s so great about this is seeing someone who looks like Lakeith being mooned after.
From Slate ● Nov. 20, 2019
She and Tom Arnold had mooned the crowd at a World Series game to show off their matching tattoos.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 10, 2018
You wouldn't even be getting this kind of coverage if Silvio Berlusconi mooned Barack Obama in front of the UN.
From The Guardian ● Mar. 11, 2013
So far, she seems mild-mannered compared with McQueen, who once mooned the crowd, in lieu of a bow, at the end of his runway show.
From Seattle Times ● May 9, 2011
Eddie mooned on down to La Ida and talked to his friend the bartender.
From "Cannery Row" by John Steinbeck
Bogotá’s unorthodox mayor, Antanas Mockus—who rose to fame after mooning student protesters and deployed mimes to control traffic—viewed the activity as a gambit “to achieve self-regulation in the behavior among citizens.”
From Slate ● Dec. 22, 2024
Would there be a ShyBelligerent if he still were mooning around Compton?
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 28, 2024
Anduaga’s soigné style, and vibrant yet plangent timbre, made him an uncommonly sensitive Nemorino — more of a melancholy-prone Werther scribbling poeticisms in a notebook than a sunny country bumpkin mooning over his beloved.
From New York Times ● Apr. 18, 2023
Footage captured the moment a terminally ill man was arrested by police officers after "mooning" at speed camera van.
From BBC ● Nov. 10, 2021
Piggy was mooning about, aimlessly picking up things and discarding them.
From "Lord of the Flies" by William Golding
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