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Have you seen the Harvest Moon? Did it inspire a song to begin playing in your head? 'Shine on, shine on harvest moon...' Throughout the history of music, our lunar neighbor has inspired countless songwriters to try to capture the beauty and meaning of this celestial relationship and put it down in words. Who do you think has created the best moon song?

Do you like gazing into the sky, seeing how many planets and constellations you can find? Tonight it will be easy finding Jupiter, our solar system's largest planet is nestled next to the moon as the two brightest objects in our night sky.

Plane Flies Across The Moon (Dan Kitwood/Getty)Are you throwing a full moon party? This weekend, the moon will be the closest to the Earth as it will get all year long, called perigee by Astonomers. The full moon officially occurs at 9:35 MDT on Saturday night, so it's prime time to host a 'howlingly' fun get together, hopefully we'll have clear skies over Cheyenne to enjoy all the moonshine. Read

Newt Gingrich definitely knows how to play to his audience. In a campaign speech near Cape Canaveral, FL, on Wednesday, Gingrich promised that, as president, he would push to colonize the moon.

NASA is sending a set of robotic twins to the moon to measure lunar gravity while chasing one another around in circles. Thursday and Friday's scheduled launches were delayed by high winds at Cape Canaveral, so NASA will try again on Saturday morning. Their launch window extends into mid-October. The near-identical twins called GRAIL-A and GRAIL-B, (short for Gravity Recovery and Interior Laborato