KOSCIUSKO — Tonight, eyes will turn to the sky to witness an event that happens only once in a blue moon — literally. According to the National Aeronautics and Space Administration website, a blue moon does not appear blue. Rather, the colorful nickname has been attached to the second full moon to occur within a …read more.

Dateline: 4:17 p.m. EDT, Friday, July 20, 1969, southwestern edge of the Sea of Tranquility, the moon. With the terse factual observation, “The Eagle has landed,” U.S. astronaut Neil Armstrong announced an unprecedented human achievement, courtesy of the brightest minds on earth working with less computing power than exists in the average desktop computer. The …read more.

Not long before sunrise tomorrow morning, April 4, the full moon should turn a lovely shade of celestial red during a brief total lunar eclipse. The eclipse will be visible from all parts of the United States, however eastern North America will only see the beginning stages of the eclipse before sunrise, starting at about …read more.

Reader AL Mitterling sent us this photo of the “blood moon” taken south of Warsaw at 3:04 a.m., just two minutes before totality. Mitterling shot the photo with his Canon Rebel digital camera using a telephoto lens.(Photo provided by AL Mitterling) For those who missed this morning’s total lunar eclipse (see related) due to cloud …read more.