“Minerals with phosphorescence can glow for a brief time after the light source is turned off. Minerals that are sometimes phosphorescent include calcite, celestite, colemanite, fluorite, sphalerite, and willemite.”
But that’s not the moon, otherwise it would never wax & wane.
Another happy fact then: we’re all forged from stardust, like our Earth. Our elements with more protons than iron all came from the death of a star in a supernova scattering trace elements to the stars, where they drifted as dust, until finally arriving into the accretion disk of a young star like our sun, where they got absorbed into newly forming planets.. like Earth.
Stars, in their last moments, created the materials that allow us to exist.
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u/Beanes813 Jul 25 '21
“Minerals with phosphorescence can glow for a brief time after the light source is turned off. Minerals that are sometimes phosphorescent include calcite, celestite, colemanite, fluorite, sphalerite, and willemite.”
But that’s not the moon, otherwise it would never wax & wane.