I should go do that now that things are back to normal.
It's pretty much exactly the same size it was last week. Sheesh!
No, it is. It's maybe a tiny bit bigger 'cause of a microscopic layer that's been added in the past week as the mass picks up dust.
It's just an elliptical orbit, so it appears bigger.
The ol' moon is actually moving away from us at something like 6cm per year.
I know what you mean - but I figured I'd have fun with it. It's technically a wee bit bigger but you can't detect that with the naked eye or any sensing equipment we currently have. The moon adds like 0.01mm to its size per year, as it picks up random bits of space dust.
And it's bright too.
Wait a couple more hours until Mars shows up. Right now it's brighter than Jupiter and has a nice orange cast to it.
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