The Moon has been a source of wonder, inspiration, comfort and light throughout humanity’s existence. Viewed as a goddess by some, a god by others, it is connected to wisdom and intuition by Pagans, to the divine feminine in spirituality. And astronomers want it gone. Not all astronomers, but some. Why? Because it’s too bright. While for many of us a full Moon is a striking addition to the night sky, for astronomers the bright light is a blinding one. ‘I hate the Moon,’ says Dr Jonathan McDowell, an astrophysicist at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics. ‘The Moon is evil,...