5%-illuminated waxing crescent moon close to Venus shining at magnitude-4.8. In a small telescope, Venus will be a 13%-lit crescent — a rare and beautiful sight. A "blood moon": March 13-14 ...

Exciting February sky events include Venus at its brightest and closest to Earth, the moon occulting the Pleiades, and a ...

Earthshine lights the “dark side of the Moon” on the waxing crescent Moon ... There are few more delicate and beautiful sights in nature than the crescent moon, which dominates this week's ...

These range from a banana-shaped crescent moon, a D-shaped quarter moon and a nearly full gibbous moon. Each phase is named according to where it falls in the 29½-day cycle, whether it is waxing ...

SKYWATCHERS in Watford snapped these amazing images of the Crescent Moon close to planet Venus tonight as January promises to deliver spectacular evening skies. Members of the Watford Observer ...

The new year opens with Jupiter still dominating the night sky. Earth passed the king of planets in the orbital race a month ago, but something as brilliant as Jupiter takes a while to fade.

This means we see the Moon’s phases from Earth as different shapes. Waxing crescent Moon – less than half of the visible surface is illuminated (starts as a thin, curved sliver) and getting ...

With Venus shining at its peak close to the crescent moon ... passing through the most beautiful open cluster of stars in the night sky. However, the 57%-illuminated waxing gibbous moon will ...

January showed us the beautiful wolf moon ... As of Feb. 3, the moon is currently in its waxing crescent phase at 32% illumination, according to Space.com. The moon's phases in February are ...