As the moon moves through its various stages, it experiences several phases of partial light. These range from a banana-shaped crescent moon, a D-shaped quarter moon and a nearly full gibbous moon.

Look up this week for February’s full snow moon and to catch the last glimpse of a visible parade of planets in the night sky ...

Moon phases reveal the passage of time in the night sky. Some nights when we look up at the moon ... and gradually increases from a waxing "crescent" (for its shape into the first quarter moon.

The Moon passes 0.4° south of this star at 4 A.M. EST. You can catch the pair about 20° high in the south around 5:30 A.M. local time, with the crescent Moon to Antares’ lower left.

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Understand the moon phases and you can wager a pretty good guess for when the next full moon is just by looking up.

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FOR many years past geologists have turned wistfully to the moon in the hope of gaining from a study of its surface some insight into planetary evolution, and more especially into some of the ...

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