Have you ever seen the moon? As far as we know the moon looks like it changes sizes and changes color as well. Sometimes the color goes from red to blue to even purple but these sites are so rare a human may not ever see one. The moon also looks like it changes size but actually what we see is actually just an illusion, in fact, the moon doesn't glow at all. The light and size is all the sunlight. You may have heard someone say “once in a blue moon”, the moon is rare to be blue so it makes sense that “once in a blue moon” means something that is rare to happen.
A moon has some phases that we can see on earth that have some specific names. We can see the moon some days but not always but why? The moon is spinning around the earth, the earth is spinning itself and both of the planets are rotating around the sun, when it gets to the right position some of the sun’s sunlights will still travel to the moon. What we see isn't a magic moon which changes size and glow, it is actually the sunlight that we see, not the moon, and it changes color because some light is blocked by earth while some isn't so it shines on the moon and we see the moon.
There are many moon phases and each of these phases have their own unique texture and shape. These are the following phases: new moon, waxing crescent, first quarter, waxing gibbous, full moon, waning gibbous, third quarter and waning crescent. The new moon is nothing, we can’t see anything. A full moon is a complete circle. A waxing crescent and a waning crescent is almost full but not quite. First quarter, and third quarter are more than a half moon. Waning gibbous and waxing gibbous are just a little bit more than a half moon.
Out of all the moon phases I like the half moon best. First, I like the half moon phase because guessing which side the half is going to be on is fun. I can also see some of the moon’s details and the craters on the moon made by asteroids. Second, on half moon days it feels just perfect like the moon is a cookie and I give my friend one half and I have the other half. I don’t like having too much of something or too little of something so for me it is just perfect. Last but not least, when there is a full moon it is just a little creepy having something always looking at me but if it is a half moon with a smaller area compared to the full moon, sometimes it is less visible in the trees because of how little portion a half moon can get.
The moon is spinning around the earth, the earth is spinning itself and both of the planets are rotating around the sun, when it gets to the right position some of the sun’s sunlights will still travel to the moon and that is why we see the moon. There are many moon phases, these are all the following phases: new moon, waxing crescent, first quarter, waxing gibbous, full moon, waning gibbous, third quarter and waning crescent. In all of those moon phases I mostly prefer the half moon best other then the full moon or the other moon phases.
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