Theme: "Accelerating Digital Transformation in challenging times". World Telecommunication and Information Society Day (WTISD) has been celebrated annually every 17 May since 1969 to mark the founding of ITU […]
The Moon is at First Quarter on May 19th - it is visible high in the southern sky in early evening.
Andrei Dmitrievich Sakharov (21 May 1921 – 14 December 1989) was a Soviet and Russian nuclear physicist, dissident, Nobel laureate, and activist for disarmament, peace and human rights. He became renowned as the designer […]
The Moon is at perigee, its closest point to Earth in its monthly orbit, on May 25th.
The Full Moon rises at sunset, is visible all night, and is high in the sky around midnight. May's Full Moon is called the Flower Moon by The Old Farmer’s […]
A Total Lunar Eclipse occurs on this night
Mercury and Venus appear less than 1 degree apart at dusk on May 28th.
The Moon is at Last Quarter (or Third Quarter) – rising around midnight, and visible to the south after sunrise.
During World War II (1939-1945), the Battle of Normandy, which lasted from June 1944 to August 1944, resulted in the Allied liberation of Western Europe from Nazi Germany’s control. Codenamed […]
The Moon’s distance from Earth varies throughout its monthly orbit because the Moon’s orbit isn’t perfectly circular. Every month, the Moon’s eccentric orbit carries it to apogee – its most distant point from […]
