STEP 2 - Compare the football and modelling clay ball in size ... Moon does not make its own light like a star. The Moon appears bright because it reflects light from the Sun. Like the Earth ...

How the Earth, Sun, and Moon are arranged in a solar eclipse? This activity will help you to build an understanding of the relative sizes of the Earth, Moon and Sun, and the spatial relationships ...

The Earth formed over 4.6 billion years ago out of a mixture of dust and gas around the young sun ... grew to its final size through one last major collision with another Mars-sized object. This last ...

The full moon is the point where the entire face of the moon is illuminated by the sun as seen from Earth. "This is as close as we come to seeing the sun's illumination of the entire day side of ...