Our sun is a star so you tell me.
In a solar eclipse, the Moon passes in between the Sun and the Earth, and the Moon's shadow darkens a small area of the Earth for a few minutes.
The center of the moon is within a few thousand miles of the straight line between the center of the sun and the center of the earth.
Here are a few statements that I believe will answer your questions: -- Eclipses occur when the Sun, Earth, and Moon are almost perfectly in line. -- When the Earth is the one in the 'middle', the Moon is eclipsed, because it is then in the Earth's shadow. -- When the Moon is the one in the 'middle', the Sun is eclipsed for people in certain locations, because they are briefly in the Moon's shadow.
A lunar eclipse means the Earth is exactly between the Sun and the Moon, so the Earth's shadow falls onto the Moon. A new moon means the Moon is roughly between the Sun and the Earth, so you can't see the Moon that easily because the side that is lit by the Sun is pointing away from us. If during a new moon the Moon should become _exactly_ between the Earth and the Sun, some people on Earth (if standing in the right place) would see a big chunk cut out of the Sun where the Moon is blocking its light, causing a shadow to go on the Earth. The Moon might even completely block out the Sun's light for a few minutes. This is called a Solar Eclipse.
stars, the moon, and a few planets...
The moon gets closer and further to the earth during it's orbit, throughout the month. It is also slowly moving away from the earth by a few cm every year.
You don't pass any. There' nothing in space between Earth and moon except maybe a few meteoroids. The planet that is able to come closest to Earth is Venus. When Venus is as close to Earth as it can ever get, it's more than 100 times farther away than the moon ever is.
Technically, a new moon occurs when the moon is not visible from Earth and usually lasts for a few hours to a day. However, some cultures define a "new moon" as the period when the moon is not visible for up to three days.
Answer:The Moon is closer. The Sun is 380 times farther away.The Moon is about 384,400 km (239,000 miles) away from the Earth,The Sun is 149.6 million km (93,000,000 miles) away from the Earth.i dunnoo i think Saturn but dunoo yy :)
Not hardly. The moon is moving away from the Earth at a rate of a few inches per year. In about 25000 years, the moon may have the potential to escape the gravity of the Earth.
In a new moon, the moon is between Earth and the sun. They are nearly totally different. New Moon is solar eclipse season; not every New Moon gives a solar eclipse, but every solar eclipse happens at New Moon, without exception. The New Moon is when the moon is completely unlit from the point of view of observers on earth. During New Moon (not really visible to earth observers because the moon is blotted out by the blinding light of the sun) it is the night time side of the moon that is facing earth. Put another way, the face of the moon that is always oriented toward earth is experiencing its night time. During a lunar eclipse, that same face of the moon is darkened, but not because it is experiencing night time. The earth is between the moon and sun, and the earth's shadow darkens the face of the moon that we see. You could say that the entire surface of the moon is dark during a lunar eclipse. The far side is experiencing night time, and the earth side of the moon is darkened by earth's shadow. In a new moon, Earth is between the sun and the moon. ~ Apex
A "new moon" does not last at all. The phases of the moon as we see them are simply caused by the casting of the earth's shadow on the moon, thereby making only the lighted part visible, and this changes constantly as everything rotates. (Keep in mind we only see the moon after dark, which means the sun is on one side of the earth and the moon is on the other side - our side...therefore, our shadow is cast upon the moon.) Romantically speaking, the new moon seems to last a few days after its actual occurrance, but this depends more on how long you want it to last than on actual visual evidence. If you are in love, any phase of the moon can last forever.