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See the 'Seven Sisters' of the Pleiades swim in the light of a waxing moon at sunset tonight
The moon will be closest to the Pleiades in the hours following sunset.
The Full Moon is tomorrow.
After full moon, the terminator returns, but this time on the moon's opposite side, where it marks the line of advancing lunar sunset. Slice by slice, the lunar nearside succumbs to night as the moon wanes from full to half to morning crescent. A few days after, it returns at dusk to begin its cycle — and visitations — anew.
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The Moon and Saturn Will Form a Striking Conjunction Tonight—Don't Miss It
Here's how to see the celestial pairing.
A waxing moon is when the illuminated portion of the moon that we see from Earth is growing larger each night. After the new moon, when the moon is invisible or nearly invisible in the night sky, the waxing phase begins. Each evening, the sunlight ...
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