Archives: December2009

• “Blue Moon” to Shine on New Year’s Eve

  Howling at the full “blue moon” this New Year’s Eve might be the most appropriate response: The popular definition is rooted in an editorial error, experts say.

  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  

• PHOTOS: Dolphin “Drive Hunts” Continue in Japan, Europe

  Dolphin “drive” hunts, a bloody tradition denounced in the recent documentary The Cove, continue in Japan and Denmark’s Faroe Islands.

  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  

• SPACE PHOTOS THIS WEEK: Star Birth, Active Sun, More

  A planet-forming disk has its temperature taken, a satellite spies on Fiji’s mangrove forests, bright blemishes hint at increased action on the sun, and more in our selection of the week’s best space pictures.