As it grows, it is known as a waxing moon, and gradually increases from a waxing "crescent" (for its shape into the first quarter moon. As it continues to brighten, it takes on an oblong ...
A waning crescent moon will creep closer and closer to Spica until the star's light is extinguished in the blink of an eye on the morning of Wednesday, Nov. 27. Earlier this month, the planet ...
"Right now is a great time to go outside and look up at the night sky," Henry Throop, a planetary scientist at NASA, told ABC News. The "Christmas Star" may have historically been when Jupiter and ...