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

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 ...

(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.

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 ...

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 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 ...