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The Moon reflects the light of the Sun; it produces no light of its own. What's really amazing is how MUCH light the Moon reflects - considering that the "albedo", or reflectivity of the Moon is about the same as a charcoal briquette. It only reflects about 3% of the light that hits it - but the Sun's light is so enormously bright that 3% is almost enough to light up the night sky.

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