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Photograph by Tom Schwabel, My Shot
The moon is the biggest and brightest heavenly body visible in the night sky. Measuring 2,160 miles (3,476 kilometers) in diameter, it is the Earth's natural satellite. -
Photograph by Roy Samuelsen, My Shot
The world's coasts are a daily reminder of the moon's influence on our planet. The moon's gravity pulling on Earth is the principal cause of ocean tides. -
Photograph by Sekhar DMR, My Shot
The lunar landscape is colorless, full of craters, and scattered with huge boulders. Every part is covered with a thick layer of powdery gray dust. -
Photograph by Francois Mori/AP
For a lunar eclipse to take place, the sun, the Earth, and the moon must line up at full moon. Lunar eclipses occur when the moon passes through Earth's shadow. This multiple-exposure photo consists of photos taken in five-minute intervals of a lunar eclipse visible in Paris. -
Photograph by Tim Bold, My Shot
The moon has no life and there is not any air that humans can breath. The moon is the brightest object in the sky at night, but it only reflects the sun and doesn't produce any light of its own. -
Photograph by Stefano Unterthiner
The moon probably formed 4.6 billion years ago when an asteroid collided with Earth and sent a cloud of debris orbiting around the Earth that eventually came together to form the moon. -
Photograh by David Delagarza, My Shot
The full moon is sometimes surrounded by a ring or halo of light. A halo appears when the moon’s light is bent through falling ice crystals.
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