In Thai legend, Rahu reappears as the younger brother of two men who are reincarnated as the sun and moon.
Just a few years ago, the story might have flared and subsided according to news cycles as predictable as the sun and moon.
And the fact that the sun and moon were particularly close to the Earth at precisely the same time -- well, that made the tidal bulges even bigger.
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What everyone has been waiting for is something as rare as a simultaneous eclipse of the sun and the moon: a time when the four Beatles (and their widows), both Apple companies and EMI are all on the same side.
Maria Reiche concluded they were a giant calendar linked to the movements of the Sun, the Moon and the constellations.
Donald Olson and Thomas Lytle of Southwest Texas State University have calculated the tidal forces exerted on the earth by the sun, the moon and the planets.
Without it, we might still fancy the Earth situated in the center of the cosmos, with the sun, the moon and all the stars orbiting around us.
The Mayan calendar is based on the position of the heavenly bodies -- the sun, the moon and the stars -- and was meant to tell the Mayan people about agricultural and economic trends, said archeologist Alfredo Barrera.
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Dr Dacke had previously shown that dung beetles were able to keep a straight line by taking cues from the Sun, the Moon, and even the pattern of polarised light formed around these light sources.
Tide: periodic rising and falling of large bodies of water resulting from the gravitational attraction of the moon and sun acting on the rotating earth.
As sure as the sun comes up, the sun will go down, and the moon will rise over the horizon.
Surya (the sun) and Soma (the moon) reported the incident to the great deity Vishnu, who promptly sought out the impudent Rahu and lopped off his head.
To make this work, the sun, moon and the stars would need to align almost perfectly.
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The internet is chock-full of treatments promising the sun, moon and stars for all sorts of medical problems.
"At night the clouds change to stars and the sun to the moon, " Mr. Thorne, chief technology officer of 4moms, explained when I got him on the phone.
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The phases of the moon occur due to cycles among the moon, the earth and the sun.
The Maya used their mathematical knowledge along with celestial observations to finesse a calendar created by the Olmec which is a culture from the Mexican Gulf Coast and to create monuments to observe and commemorate movements of the moon, the sun, and Venus.
Their model takes into account both general relativity and all known gravitational effects of the sun, the moon, the planets and large asteroids.
The Mauni Amavasya is a day when sun, moon, Venus and Mercury are in the zodiac of Capricorn, a rare but perfect alignment of planets, devotees believe.
They have measured microwaves as they warped around the sun, studied variations in the orbit of Mercury, and bounced signals off the Moon and Mars.
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Try this analogy (thanks to Veritasium.com): if the Earth were the size of a basketball, the moon would be a tennis ball about 24 feet away, and the Sun would be like a house nearly two miles away.
Before Max was even tired, the moon had fallen through the water and the sun had risen to replace it.
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As the Moon's disc began to leave the Sun, it was light again, and birds, which had flown to their nests only minutes earlier, came chirping out again.
Like the Moon, asteroids can wax and wane, depending on their position relative to the Sun.
We all shouted, and the happiness at having found them again was already fraught with the pain of having lost them now forever, as the moon rising in the dark sky sent out only the reflections of the sun on its lakes and fields.
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