Life is strong and fragile. Its a paradox Its both things, like quantum physics: Its a particle and a wave at the same time. It all exists all together. -Joan Jett

Weve reached the end of yet another weekhereatStarts With A Bang,which means its time to take a look back at everything weve covered. It also means its time foryou to catch up on any of the (amazing) articles you missed, which includes:

Im so excited by what weve taken a look at so far not only this week but in all of 2015, and you continue to respond with some incredibly thought-provoking material. Lets dive in to the best of it on this edition of ourComments of the Week!

Images credit: NASA / GSFC, created at https://imgflip.com/gifgenerator.

From Hank Roberts on (interestingly) viewing the Moon: So DSCOVR is going to be at the L1 Lagrange Point 1.5 million kilometers (932,000 miles) sunward from Earth.andThe average distance to the Moon is 384403 km (238,857 miles) So anyone know the quality of the camera on DSCOVR? Field of view? How often will we see Earth and Moon in that field of view?

As beautiful as the animationabove is, you have to realize that even this isnt animage of the Moon or of the Moon-and-Earth, but rather a computer simulation that was constructed based on the mosaic of the Moon that the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) was able to construct usingthousands of unique images.

Image credit: NASA / WMAP, via http://map.gsfc.nasa.gov/mission/observatory_l2.html.

What weve got as far DSCOVR goes the deep space climate observatory isnot something thats going to be observing the Moon and the Earth, but rather something thats going to be at the L1 Lagrange Point (above), in between the Earth and Sun, in order toobserve the Sun. L1 is particularly useful because it gives us an uninterruptedview of the Sun, and places us in between the Sun and the Earth.In particular, its designed to be an early warning system for intense ion fluxes headed towards Earth, giving us 15-to-60 minutes of lead time to prepare in the event of a potentially catastrophic solar storm. Have a look at the NASA video itself:

Image credit: 2013 Constantinos Emmanoulidis, 2014 Miloslav Druckmller, via http://www.zam.fme.vutbr.cz/~druck/Eclipse/Ecl2013g/TSE_2013wa_ed/0-info.htm.

From Ragtag Media on a super-short solar eclipse: Cool. Thanks.

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