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

TONIGHT — the Last Quarter Moon walks between the mesas of Monument Valley. Around midnight, a half-lit Moon will rise over the desert, its bright side facing west while the dark side vanishes into the sky. This phase keeps the early evening sky dark for deep-sky observing, then turns the landscape silver in the hours before dawn. Between the mesas, the Moon hangs like a lantern over a fossilized ocean of rock that has been eroded for tens of millions of years. Will you stay up late enough to wa