5 天之前 · The different shapes of the Moon that we see at different times of the month are called the Moon’s phases. The Moon’s appearance changes throughout the month. Credit: NASA's Scientific Visualization Studio

2025年3月4日 · There are a few different types of unusual full moon types, which include blood moons, supermoons, blue moons, and harvest moons, and others. When you look up at the night sky, you might notice that the Moon looks a little different each night.

2025年1月14日 · From Earth, it might look like the Moon is changing shape each night – from a tiny sliver to a half moon to a full moon and back again. What’s actually happening is that from our spot on Earth, we see different parts of the Moon lit up by the Sun as the Moon travels in its orbit.

2024年3月29日 · Make Oreo Moon phases. To start, download and print this page. Then open up some Oreo cookies and scrape off the creme filling to make the four major phases of the Moon. These Oreo "Moons" show how the Moon looks from Earth during these phases:

5 天之前 · What shape is an orbit? Orbits come in different shapes. All orbits are elliptical, which means they are an ellipse, similar to an oval. For the planets, the orbits are almost circular. The orbits of comets have a different shape. They look like a "squashed" circle. They look more like thin ellipses than circles.

2024年4月8日 · An eclipse happens when a planet or a moon gets in the way of the Sun’s light. Here on Earth, we can experience two kinds of eclipses: solar eclipses and lunar eclipses . Below, check out a visualization of the April 8, 2024, total solar eclipse!

5 天之前 · What Are the Moon’s Phases? Learn about the Moon's phases! explore; Building a 3-D Map of Earth from Space! And in only 10 days! explore; Lunar Eclipses and Solar Eclipses. What’s the difference? explore; How Is the Sun Completely Blocked in an Eclipse? It all has to do with the distance between Earth and the sun and Earth and the moon. explore

We describe how the Moon looks with terms such as "Full Moon," "First Quarter," and "New Moon" (which we can't really see, because the side that is lit faces away from us). The Moon has no light of its own. Moonlight is sunlight bouncing off the Moon's surface. As the Moon orbits Earth, the Sun lights up whatever side of the Moon is facing it ...

2025年1月14日 · Most scientists think that that rubble, in time, became our Moon. As Earth orbits the Sun, its tilted axis always points in the same direction. So, throughout the year, different parts of Earth get the Sun’s direct rays.

5 天之前 · A planet is round because of gravity. A planet's gravity pulls equally from all sides. Gravity pulls from the center to the edges like the spokes of a bicycle wheel. This makes the overall shape of a planet a sphere, which is a three-dimensional circle.