moon
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Saturn, by comparison, is dominated by Titan, the Solar System's second largest moon.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 27, 2026
“By understanding nature’s cycles and natural rhythms. Māori understood the connection between moon, sun, tides and seasons, the way all animals behave,” says Venner.
From Salon ● Jul. 26, 2026
Fox has often credited her father with inspiring her love of space after he showed her the moon landing on television when she was eight months old.
From BBC ● Jul. 26, 2026
I like baseball, but it’s not like these guys are astronauts, just back from the moon.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 24, 2026
You’ve got to find the Mountain of the World Spirit within the next moon, he told himself.
From "Wolf Brother" by Michelle Paver
Jupiter currently has more than 100 reported moons, while Saturn, which is also encircled by an extensive ring system, has more than 280.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 27, 2026
Because Jupiter and Saturn are both gas giants, astronomers have struggled to explain why their major moons developed so differently.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 27, 2026
Symbols that the pioneering assemblage artist has been “remixing” for more than seven decades — stars, moons, eyes, hands — emerge in vibrant washes of magenta, teal and her favored crepuscular blues.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 15, 2026
For four-day periods every year from March to August, legions of small, silver fish called grunion ride the waves ashore for mating rituals, beginning on the nights of the full and new moons.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 14, 2026
Because we can compare his observations with our retrodiction of the location of the moons of Jupiter when he was observing them.
From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton
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
That idea was encapsulated by the verbal exchange as Peggy mooned over those roses.
From Slate ● Apr. 21, 2014
Buffy The Vampire Slayer and its spin-off, Angel, were cult classics, the just-home-from-school fantasy shows that made vampires sexy long before R-Patz and Kristen mooned at each other in Twilight.
From The Guardian ● Jun. 2, 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
Finn talked to squirrels and mooned out the window.
From "Bone Gap" by Laura Ruby
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
He does big swings of mood, laughing hysterically, weeping when necessary, mooning over nature like a Beat poet.
From New York Times ● Jun. 19, 2022
Bad-boy drummer Tommy Lee, known for mooning the audience and for his marriage to Heather Locklear, is a key part of the band’s hardcore image.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 2, 2022
Footage captured the moment a terminally ill man was arrested by police officers after "mooning" at speed camera van.
From BBC ● Nov. 10, 2021
Rosaleen said it was T. Ray’s way of mooning the entire world.
From "The Secret Life of Bees" by Sue Monk Kidd
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