{"id":27129,"date":"2018-11-01T12:00:44","date_gmt":"2018-11-01T01:00:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/astro3d.org.au\/?p=26674"},"modified":"2021-05-06T13:39:58","modified_gmt":"2021-05-06T03:39:58","slug":"seeing-the-galaxy-reflected-off-the-moon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/astro3d.org.au\/seeing-the-galaxy-reflected-off-the-moon\/","title":{"rendered":"Seeing the Galaxy Reflected off the Moon"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"fusion-fullwidth fullwidth-box fusion-builder-row-1 nonhundred-percent-fullwidth non-hundred-percent-height-scrolling\" style=\"--awb-border-radius-top-left:0px;--awb-border-radius-top-right:0px;--awb-border-radius-bottom-right:0px;--awb-border-radius-bottom-left:0px;--awb-flex-wrap:wrap;\" ><div class=\"fusion-builder-row fusion-row\"><div class=\"fusion-layout-column fusion_builder_column fusion-builder-column-0 fusion_builder_column_1_1 1_1 fusion-one-full fusion-column-first fusion-column-last\" style=\"--awb-bg-size:cover;--awb-margin-bottom:0px;\"><div class=\"fusion-column-wrapper fusion-flex-column-wrapper-legacy\"><div class=\"fusion-text fusion-text-1\"><p>Just like the back of a spoon reflects visible light, appearing to curve straight lines, so too does the Moon reflect the otherwise straight line of our Milky Way galaxy into a circle when at the right angle. November 2018&#8217;s &#8220;Monthly Media&#8221; is a series of simulated images from Dr Ben McKinley&#8217;s recent paper detailing how we can use the Moon to better detect the <a href=\"http:\/\/astro3d.org.au\/project\/mwa-eor\/\"><u>Epoch of Reionisation<\/u><\/a> during the very early Universe.<\/p>\n<\/div><div class=\"fusion-image-element fusion-image-align-center in-legacy-container\" style=\"text-align:center;--awb-liftup-border-radius:0px;--awb-caption-title-font-family:var(--h2_typography-font-family);--awb-caption-title-font-weight:var(--h2_typography-font-weight);--awb-caption-title-font-style:var(--h2_typography-font-style);--awb-caption-title-size:var(--h2_typography-font-size);--awb-caption-title-transform:var(--h2_typography-text-transform);--awb-caption-title-line-height:var(--h2_typography-line-height);--awb-caption-title-letter-spacing:var(--h2_typography-letter-spacing);\"><div class=\"imageframe-align-center\"><div class=\"awb-image-frame awb-image-frame-1 imageframe-liftup\"><span class=\" fusion-imageframe imageframe-none imageframe-1\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" title=\"Moon-MW-reflection_BMcKinley_NASA.gif\" src=\"http:\/\/astro3d.org.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/Moon-MW-reflection_BMcKinley_NASA.gif.gif\" alt class=\"img-responsive wp-image-28049\"\/><\/span><\/div><\/div><\/div><div class=\"fusion-text fusion-text-2\"><p>As time passes, the position of the reflected galaxy changes on the Moon.<\/p>\n<\/div><div class=\"fusion-clearfix\"><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":223,"featured_media":28049,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[14,23,24,2,7],"tags":[25,26,27,28,30,31,32,33,34,35],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-27129","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-curtin","category-monthly-media","category-mwa-eor","category-news","category-science","tag-curtin","tag-curtin-university","tag-early-universe","tag-eor","tag-epoch-of-reionisation","tag-first-stars","tag-galaxies","tag-monthly-media","tag-murchison-widefield-array","tag-mwa"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.8 - 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