The moon's ascending node (the point in the sky where its orbit crosses the ecliptic from south to north) is moving westward ...
Just days after sharing a breathtaking shot of Earth, the American astronaut has followed up with an equally stunning shot of a waning crescent moon, or, as Pettit put it: “a glowing fingernail ...
On Dec. 1, a fingernail moon emerges from the sun’s afterglow ... the moon’s fat crescent will be hanging above the giant planet high in the south, with Spica, the brightest star in Virgo ...
Even to a casual viewer, the waxing gibbous moon of Friday, Feb. 7 will appear unusual. As it crosses the meridian shortly after 8 p.m. local standard time, it will climb so very high in the sky ...
Even to a casual viewer, the waxing gibbous moon of Friday, Feb. 7 will appear unusual. As it crosses the meridian shortly after 8 p.m. local standard time, it will climb so very high in the sky that ...