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 ...

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

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 ...

The Moon is waxing when we can see more of its surface each night, and it's waning when less of its surface is illuminated from ... the very minimum—one of its crescent stages.

It is what astronomers call the "greatest illuminated extent" of this planet's disk. And be sure to get outside after sunset tonight (Feb. 1). For that evening a lovely crescent moon will appear to ...

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New Moon, waxing crescent, First Quarter, waxing gibbous, Full Moon, waning gibbous, Last Quarter, and waning crescent. A cycle starting from one Full Moon to its next counterpart, termed the ...