it doesn't there is just a shadow on the moon giving the appearance that it changes.
The moon does not change its shape, it is always a spheroid. It is the angles of a triangle formed by the sun, moon, and earth that change and affect which half of the moon is in sunlight and how much of that part is visible from earth. When this triangle is almost a straight line with the sun and moon on opposite sides of the earth you can see all of the lighted area and the moon is round (full moon). When they form an equilateral triangle, i.e. the sun is setting when the moon is at 60 degrees in the western sky, you see a semi-circle because only half of the side facing earth is lighted.No. There are 29.5 days between full moons.
Nothing happens to the other side of the Moon in half moon days. The reason we do not see the whole Moon is because only half of it is reflecting the light from the Sun.
In a lunar eclipse the Earth is in the middle and blocks the Sun's light from the Moon, so that happens always at Full Moon but not every time. A solar eclipse has the Moon in the middle so it happens at New Moon, but not every time, and the Moon is not big enough to shadow the whole Earth so a solar eclipse is seen only in a strip across the Earth's surface.
No. The moon rotates much slower than Earth. Earth completes a rotation once every days. The moon completes a rotation once every 27 days.
The complete cycle of moon phases repeats every 29.53 days.
On average a full moon occurs every 29.53 days but it can be 29 days or 30 days hence the average.
The Moon has no light of its own, it shines because the Sun's light is illuminating it. It takes the light from the Sun about 8 minutes to reach the Moon and 1.27 seconds to bounce off the Moon to your eyes. As the Moon orbits the Earth every 27 days, there are 27 days between one Full Moon and the next.
No. There are 29.5 days between full moons.
Every two weeks there abouts. A full moon is every 27-28 days but a half moon is every 14 days but if you want to know about just the time the half is on the right side then that is once every 27-28 days.
About 29.53 days after the New Moon, another New Moon occurs.
Basically, 14 or 15 days after full moon you have new moon.
Nothing happens to the other side of the Moon in half moon days. The reason we do not see the whole Moon is because only half of it is reflecting the light from the Sun.
The moon orbits the earth about once every month, thus each phase of the moon - full moon, new moon, waning half moon, waxing half moon, etc. - occurs about once each month. It's not exact - the moon takes about 28 days and most months are longer than that by a few days.
full moon is every 27.5 days
The moon goes from new moon to full moon back to new moon about every month.
Nothing happens.
Not always. The Sun is always shining on half the earth, and when there is a full moon no part of the back side of our moon is shining.The only time that happens is for a split second every 27-28 days when the new moon happens.