Moon Phases 🌚 The Moon has 8 phases: 🌑 New Moon 🌙 Waxing Crescent 🌓 First Quarter 🌔 Waxing Gibbous 🌕 Full Moon 🌖 Waning Gibbous 🌗 Last Quarter 🌘 Waning Crescent 👀 As the Moon orbits the Earth, the portion of the illuminated Moon that we see changes – giving rise to the phases of the Moon. Watch this video to get a visual explanation of how the Moon phases actually work. #moon #astronomy #space | Star Walk

Full moon, half-moon, total eclipse. 🌘 What happens when we look up and the moon is missing? And what would ‘Life Without’ the moon look like? In the first episode of this new podcast for BBC Radio 4, Alan Davies imagines a world where the moon just ceases to exist, the Earth’s natural satellite gone. Life Without | Listen on BBC Sounds | BBC Radio 4

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