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Handmade art book for my Moon-obsessed toddler 🌕
(Sans cover because their name is on it)
It started as a low effort "I can finish this in one afternoon" project, with finger-painted moon & splotchy stars. But I decided to add the animals so it ballooned into a week-long ordeal.
Acrylic paint, gesso, matte medium & water-soluble pastels on 180gsm mixed media paper.
#artvideo #video #MixedMedia #art #MastoArt #fediart #artwork #CreativeToots #TraditionalArt #painting #ArtistBook #moon
El otro día disfruté de la maravillosa experiencia de ver la Luna a través de un telescopio de un observatorio, y se podía hacer una foto a través del telescopio y BUAH. Es impresionante 🤩
#Luna #Lua #Moon #Astrophotography #Astrogotografía #FotografíaNocturna
🌙 The Cosmic Crash That Made the Moon
About 4.5 billion years ago, a Mars-sized planet called Theia slammed into Earth. The Moon is what was left of the wreckage. That's the short version.
The long version is wilder than we thought:
- Theia was probably Earth's neighbor, formed from the same inner solar system material (Hopp et al., Science, Nov 2025)
- It may have hit Earth as a "metallic cannonball" after losing its mantle in earlier collisions
- The Moon might have formed in hours, not months (NASA Ames, 2022)
- Lunar rocks were "reset" by tidal remelting 4.35 billion years ago, masking the Moon's true age of 4.43-4.53 billion years (Nimmo et al., Nature, Dec 2024)
- Theia's mantle may still be inside Earth - two continent-sized blobs at the core-mantle boundary
Full deep dive: hermez.prose.sh/how-earth-got-…
