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Tag: Moon

  • Three Space Diagrams, Three Missing Clues

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    Author: Jihun Oh Subtitle: Why Moon phases, Earth’s seasons, and eclipses aren’t quite what they seem Image credit: “Solar Corona of the 2024 Total Solar Eclipse” by Brucewaters (8 April 2024, Sherbrooke, Québec). CC BY 4.0; unmodified. Source: Wikimedia Commons. Licence: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0. A first-quarter Moon looks half illuminated. A drawing of Earth…