OK, I know that people's perceptions of astrophysics can be a bit off at times, but this is taking things too far... Come on, use some common sense here. Never mind any fancy astronomical distances, the article itself points out that the difference in distance between the moon right now and at other more 'normal' times is currently 350,000 km, some 30,000 km less than the usual distance of ~385,000 km. This is a difference of around 7%! This means that the Moon is only 7% larger in the sky than normal. 7%. Unlike what's represented in the picture, from which you'd deduce that the Earth-Moon distance had suddenly shrunk to at least a third of its usual distance!
*wanders off muttering about science education and reporting these days*
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...Deep breath in....
...And out again!
I think that the picture in the article needs a small boy on a bicycle with an alien in a basket on the front.
Just a thought. Nice blog, by the way.
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