With each passing night as, the crescent slowly widens and it begins to appear against a progressively darker background, its ...

Waxing crescent: As the moon moves around Earth, the side we can see gradually becomes more illuminated by direct sunlight. First quarter: The moon is 90 degrees away from the sun in the sky and ...

This is the last chance to catch the pair in conjunction this year—with Venus set to be unusually bright in the night sky.

(Image: Claire Tessier) The light from a Waxing Crescent Moon is a sliver of silver that appears when the illuminated side of the moon faces away from earth. It happens once a month during the ...

The waxing Moon ... it will be just 50%-illuminated. Between then and March 22, when it sinks into the sun's glare, Venus will gradually shrink to a crescent, just as the moon appears to do.

Waxing crescent Moon – less than half of the visible surface is illuminated (starts as a thin, curved sliver) and getting larger. There are eight phases of the Moon beginning with the new Moon ...

On Tuesday and Wednesday, Jupiter and Saturn will be joined on one side by a rising Mercury and on the other approached by a waning crescent Moon ... sky as a super-slim waxing crescent.

On Valentine's Day (Feb. 14), its cloudy disk will be 27% illuminated and shrinking ... its entire globe can be glimpsed; the waxing crescent moon appearing as a thin arc of yellowish-white ...