let's take a moment to orient ourselves in the moon phases diagram below, beginning with imagining Earth at the center of this illustration and the sun adjacent to the new moon. Think of the ...

A new moon occurs when the moon is directly between Earth and the sun, with its shadowed side pointing towards us. You can see a new moon when it crosses the face of the sun during a solar eclipse.

We explore the celestial geometry that explains different kinds of eclipses of the sun and the moon. Do you know your eclipses? From "blood moon" and "ring of fire" eclipses to total eclipses and ...

let's take a moment to orient ourselves in the moon phases diagram below, beginning with imagining Earth at the center of this illustration and the sun adjacent to the new moon. Think of the phases ...