Astronomy

Astronomy

The scientific study of planets, stars, black holes, comets and other celestial bodies that make up outer space.

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last quarter

Astronomy; Moon

The phase of the Moon between the Waning Gibbous and the Waning Crescent when it is 90 degrees away from a line between the Sun and the Earth, where fifty percent of the Moon is ...

latitude

Astronomy; Moon

Lines of measurement around a planet or the Moon, parallel to its equator. Measured in degrees, with the equator being 0 degrees and the poles 90 degrees north or south.

librations

Astronomy; Moon

The gentle rocking motion of the Moon as it orbits in its elliptical orbit around Earth that allow slightly more than half of the Moons surface to be visible over a period of ...

limb

Astronomy; Moon

The outermost or visible edge of a planetary body such as the Moon.

longitude

Astronomy; Moon

Lines of measurement at right angles to the equator of a planet or the Moon. Measured in degrees of angle from a designated line of 0 degrees. On the Moon, 0 degrees longitude ...

lunar day

Astronomy; Moon

The period of time between two successive transits of the Moon over the same meridian. The mean lunar day is 24-84 hours (1. 035 times the mean solar day). Not the same thing as ...