Staying up all night, every night – it is enough to leave the best of us looking haggard.
But despite leading an almost entirely nocturnal lifestyle for billions of years, the moon has maintained it was a shade under 4 billion years old – and no doubt hoped its ravaged, crater-filled surface would not give the game away.
However according to new research, the moon, which is believed to have been formed after a Mars-size planet, known as Theia, collided with Earth, is actually 4.47 billion-years-old, 60 million years older than previously thought.
One thing we can say for the moon, it probably didn’t lie about its age on purpose, unlike American TV actress, Riley Weston, who had claimed she was 19 to get on-screen work before it was discovered she was actually 32. Oh.
Unlike Riley Weston, we feel sorry for the moon really.
The last time it had friends over was when a group of astronauts visited in 1972. Only drunken gap year students on Thai beaches celebrate it.
And now it has just aged 60 million years over night.
Buzzkill. Yet still it has to go out and shine all night.
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