Today, Nov. 12, 2024, the moon is 11 days old and is in the Waxing Gibbous phase of its lunar cycle. It is 83% illuminated. Moon phases reveal the passage of time in the night sky. Some nights ...
Our moon goes through phases and sometimes turns red or disappears ... You need a full moon to have a lunar eclipse. You also need a specific set of circumstances where Earth throws its shadow ...
Thanks to the Moon’s orbit around Earth, the angle of sunlight hitting the lunar surface and being reflected back to our planet changes. That creates different lunar phases. The next Full Moon ...