Space.com contributing writer Stefanie Waldek is a self-taught space nerd and aviation geek who is passionate about all things spaceflight and astronomy.
with jokes, including some of the celestial sort. If you happened to stumble across the University of Vermont's press release about theDiving into the press release, it states that"y failing to account for the time it takes light to travel from the sun, a laser-based model led by the U.S. National Observatory’s Measurement Alignment and Astronomy Ministration , has been shown to be off by seven days and 1,843 miles.
NO-MA'AM, indeed. Fortunately, the release is all just one big April Fools’ Day joke. Still, we wouldn't blame you for being concerned! Predicting eclipses is very much a precise science, but, on the bright side, humans have pretty much perfected the math."Current eclipse forecasts are accurate to less than a minute in time over a span of hundreds of years,"to sort out their relative motion, then feed that information into a computer that crunches the numbers. The computer can then determine the timing of both past and future eclipses.
With a background in travel and design journalism, as well as a Bachelor of Arts degree from New York University, she specializes in the budding space tourism industry and Earth-based astrotourism. In her free time, you can find her watching rocket launches or looking up at the stars, wondering what is out there.
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