| astronomy |
Astronomy is the science that studies things that are out in space, like the sun, the moon, other planets, and stars. |
| at1 |
When you look at the moon, it means that you look toward or in the direction of the moon. [1/3 definitions] |
| black |
Black is the color of the night sky when you can't see the moon and the clouds cover the stars. When there is no light at all, you see only black. [1/3 definitions] |
| crater |
a hollow area shaped like the inside of a bowl. The mouth of a volcano is a crater, and the moon has many craters on its surface. |
| crescent |
the shape of the moon when it looks to us like a narrow arc. The moon appears as a crescent in its first and last quarters. [2/3 definitions] |
| croissant |
A croissant is a kind of roll that many people eat for breakfast or lunch. It is very light and has a lot of butter in it. It is shaped like the moon when we only see a small part of the moon in the sky. |
| crust |
the outer layer of Earth, another planet, or a moon. [1/5 definitions] |
| dark |
When something is dark, it has little or no light. A dark house has no lights turned on. A dark night has no light from the moon. [1/6 definitions] |
| detail |
When you describe something in detail, you give a lot of information about it besides the biggest or most basic things. You tell a lot of the small things about it too. If you see something in detail, you see all its parts clearly--both the big parts and the very small parts. If you look at the moon through a telescope, you can see it in more detail than you can with just your eyes. [1/3 definitions] |
| Easter |
a Christian holiday to celebrate that Jesus Christ returned to life after he died. Easter is held every spring on the Sunday after the first full moon between March 21 and April 25. |
| eclipse |
the blocking from view of the sun, a moon, or a planet by another heavenly body. In an eclipse of the sun, the sun is hidden from earth's view by the moon passing between the sun and the earth. [1/3 definitions] |
| full moon |
the moon when it is on the side of Earth that is opposite the sun and looks from Earth like a complete circle. [1/2 definitions] |
| gibbous |
When we say there is "gibbous moon," we are talking about one of the phases that the moon goes through every month. When there is a gibbous moon, the lit up part of the moon is quite big. The moon is not completely lit up, but we can see a lot of it. |
| glow |
A glow is a bright, steady light, like the light of the moon or the light of something that is very hot. [1/4 definitions] |
| halo |
any circle or band of light that appears around a source of light, such as the sun or moon. [1/2 definitions] |
| heaven |
(usually plural) the sky, including the stars, sun, moon, and planets as seen from the earth. [1/4 definitions] |
| lunar |
of or having to do with the moon. |
| moon |
the earth's natural satellite. It revolves around the earth from west to east in about 28 days. The moon joins the earth in its orbit around the sun. The moon does not give off light. Instead, its shine comes from the light it reflects from the sun. [2 definitions] |
| moonbeam |
a ray of light from the moon. |
| moonlight |
the light of the moon. |
| new moon |
the phase of the moon when it cannot be seen because it passes directly between the sun and the earth. |