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Yes it does, a pattern that repeats. Starting with new moon, when we see nothing, the moon seems to get bigger from night to night as the angle between Sun, Moon and Earth changes. The phases are named differently by different people but may be called new moon, new crescent, half moon, waxing gibbous, full moon, waning gibbous, old half moon, old crescent, then new moon again. The cycle takes about 29.53 days on average.

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