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Yoonseo: Why does the Moon always look different?

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Yoonseo: Why does the Moon always look different?

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The Moon is always looking different because every day the Moon is rotating around Earth and every day it is in a different position and a different place. The moon rotating around the Earth takes approximately a month to complete, which is why we have a Full Moon once every month. And also, remember that because of the Moon moving that we have Phases of the Moon.

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Yoonseo: Where are the Earth, Moon, and Sun during each moon phase?

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Yoonseo: Where are the Earth, Moon, and Sun during each moon phase?

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The Earth is located in its orbit around the sun, while the moon is hidden behind the earth. (Only during full and new Moons.)The earth is completely eclipsing the moon leaving no sunlight to reflect off the moon, giving us the perspective on Earth that the Moon is completely 'gone'. But half the moon is always in sunlight, we just can't see it, whether it was blocked or in a different position that we couldn't see it. But because the moon's period of rotation is the same as its period of revolution, you always see the same side of the moon. The Sun is always in the same place, it is because of the Earth's rotation and tilting and the moon's rotation and revolution that the moon looks different.

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Moon phases are the lunar phase or phase of the moon is the shape of the illuminated (sunlit) portion of the Moon as seen by an observer, usually on Earth. The lunar phases change cyclically as the Moon orbits the Earth, according to the changing relative positions of the Earth, Moon, and Sun.

The revolution of the Moon around the Earth makes the Moon appear as if it is changing shape in the sky. This is caused by the different angles from which we see the bright part of the Moon's surface. These are called "phases" of the Moon. Of course, the Moon doesn't generate any light itself; it just reflects the light of the Sun. The Moon passes through four major shapes during a cycle that repeats itself every 29.5 days. The phases always follow one another in the same order.

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This moon phase is a Waxing Crescent. Waxing Crescents are phased right after a new moon. When you look,  a small part of the Moon appears lighted and grows larger on successive days.

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Yoonseo: Does this (the relationship between the Earth, Moon, and Sun) have something to do with seasons?

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Yoonseo: Does this (the relationship between the Earth, Moon, and Sun) have something to do with seasons?

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Yes, actually it does, because the orbit with the Earth is what causes seasons. Without it, we would have one season the whole year! (Instead of 4 seasons)

As the earth spins on its axis, producing night and day, it also moves about the sun in an elliptical (elongated circle) orbit that requires about 365 1/4 days to complete. The earth's spin axis is tilted with respect to its orbital plane. This is what causes the seasons. When the earth's axis points towards the sun, it is summer for that hemisphere. When the earth's axis points away, winter can be expected. Since the tilt of the axis is 23 1/2 degrees, the North Pole never points directly at the Sun, but on the summer solstice it points as close as it can, and on the winter solstice as far as it can. Midway between these two times, in spring and autumn, the spin axis of the earth points 90 degrees away from the sun. This means that on this date, day and night have about the same length: 12 hours each, more or less.

For the Northern Hemisphere, the axis points most toward the sun in June (specifically around June 21), and away from the sun around December 21. This corresponds to the Winter and Summer Solstice (solstice is Latin for "the sun stands"). For the Southern Hemisphere, this is reversed.

For both hemispheres, the earth is 90 degrees away from the sun around March 21 and then again around September 21. This corresponds to the Fall and Spring Equinox (equinox is Latin for "equal night"). Everyplace in the world has about 12 hours of daylight and 12 hours of night.

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Kristen: BONUS! -The Last Eclipse News Report:

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Kristen: BONUS! -The Last Eclipse News Report:

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http://news.yahoo.com/americas-front-row-seat-lunar-eclipse-165458922.html

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Kristen: How are the Moon and Earth moving around the Sun?

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Kristen: How are the Moon and Earth moving around the Sun?

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Since Nicholas Copernicus found that the universe is heliocentric, not geocentric, which means that Earth revolves around the sun, not the sun revolves around Earth, that declares that the Earth and Moon have a way of moving around the Sun, and they do. Earth moves around or orbits the Sun tilted at a 23.5 degree angle, and its path of orbit isn't a circle but Earth orbits the sun elliptically. The Earth rotates everyday on its axis while it is elliptically orbiting the sun, going counter-clockwise, and finishing a revolution in a year. The Moon rotates around the Earth counter-clockwise and in phases. The Moon's phases are caused by the sun and the moon's orbit that is tilted at a 5 degree angle around Earth.

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Kristen: Which ones are moving? (Earth, Moon, Sun) 

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Kristen: Which ones are moving? (Earth, Moon, Sun) 

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Earth has one moon that rotates around Earth. The Sun which is in the center of the universe, thanks to Nicholas Copernicus's theory, doesn't move. Earth revolves around the Sun, doing revolutions once a year. The Moon revolves around Earth while Earth spins, causing day and night. MOON = orbits = EARTH = orbits = SUN

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Kristen: How are the Earth, Moon, and Sun arranged in each eclipse?

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Kristen: How are the Earth, Moon, and Sun arranged in each eclipse?

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During a Solar Eclipse, the Moon is between the Earth and the Sun, leaving us on Earth the perspective of the Moon's shape cast upon the sun, blocking the disk, leaving a bright outer edge that reflects off the moon. At the time of Solar eclipse, the Moon, Earth and the Sun lie in the plane of ecliptic. = SUN MOON EARTH

During a Lunar Eclipse, the earth lies between the sun and the moon which results in the shape of the earth's shadow reflected upon the moon. The Earth is blocking the sun's rays on reaching the Moon, making the Moon an eclipse. The Moon can get a reddish color due to the fact that the sun's rays have to penetrate the Earth's atmosphere in order to get to the moon since it is in the middle. The white light that goes through the atmosphere gets filtered and the blue-colored light goes, leaving red light, which is reflected on the moon. = SUN EARTH MOON

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Kristen: Why doesn't an eclipse occur once a month?

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Kristen: Why doesn't an eclipse occur once a month?

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Solar and Lunar eclipses don't occur every month because the plane of the Moon's orbit around the Earth is not aligned with the plane of the Earth's orbit around the Sun. The Moon's path of orbit around Earth is tilted at a 5 degree angle. Due to the slight angle of the Moon's tilt on its orbit around the sun, the Moon is not in a direct line with the Sun and Earth. This affects how often each type of eclipse occurs in a year and month.

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Kristen: What is the relationship between the Earth, Sun, and Moon?

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Kristen: What is the relationship between the Earth, Sun, and Moon?

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The Moon orbits Earth elliptically while the Earth is rotating, causing day and night. Then, while earth is rotating day and night,  it is also orbiting the Sun. One full orbit which is a 365 day period (year) , is called one revolution. The sun provides heat and light for Earth while it is also being reflected off the moon causing 'moonlight'. Each of these bodies also cause and play an important role in the formation of eclipses and phases of the moon. The arrangement of the Sun, Earth, and Moon also effect tides on Earth by the gravitational pull from each celestial body. The two tides that are outcomes of the placement of the Moon, Earth, and Sun at a certain time are Neap and Spring tides.

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The last solar eclipse was an annular eclipse on May 9, 2013. The next solar eclipse will be an annular eclipse on April 29, 2014. It will be visible from Australia and the South Indian Ocean. (Google)

The next eclipse that will be seen in Johns Creek, GA will be on April 15, 2014. This eclipse will be a total eclipse of the moon, lunar eclipse, and will be almost fully visable from North America.

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Solar eclipses can happen as often as 2-5 times a year, according to rule. Scientifically, Solar Eclipses can only happen at New Moon, and when the Earth is between the Sun and Moon.

Lunar Eclipses don't have a set pattern in which they come, because the conditions have to be absolute and no other condition can be present, thus they only happen several times a year. Lunar eclipses only happen at full moon and when the Moon is in Earth's plane of orbit around the sun.

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Solar and Lunar eclipses are the outcomes that happen due to the alignment of the Sun, Moon, and Earth at a given time. Solar eclipses only occur at New Moon, when the moon is between the Earth and Sun, and the Moon's shadow falls on Earth causing us to see the Sun's disk 'eclipsed' by the moon. Lunar eclipses happen only at Full Moons, when Earth comes between the Sun and the Moon and a shadow of Earth falls on the Moon. In lunar eclipses, the moon can have a reddish color due to light from the sun going through Earth's atmosphere which filters out most of the blue-colored light from the ultra-violet light from the sun's rays.

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The word 'eclipse' is not a word you hear in everyday conversation. An eclipse is "an obscuring of the light from one celestial body by the passage of another between it and the observer or between it and its source of illumination". In the tweet sent out by NASA, the picture of the moon they referred to as an 'eclipse' is a 'partial solar eclipse', where the Moon covers the Sun only partially as seen from Earth, leaving a big sunspot uncovered.