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Waxing crescent Moon
The phases of the Moon
Although the Earth and the Moon have no light of their own, they are illuminated by the Sun. Because the Moon can lie between the Earth and the Sun, it exhibits phases—changes in the way it looks.
The phases begin with a new Moon, go through a waxing (increasing) crescent Moon, a half Moon, and a waxing gibboUs Moon to a full Moon. The phases continue as a waning (decreasing) gibbous Moon, a half Moon, and a waning crescent Moon, finishing with darkness, or a new Moon.
A gibbous Moon occurs when the Moon is between half a full Moon and a full Moon. The crescent Moon is less than half a full Moon.
New Moon
 A crescent Moon: less than a half Moon.
Waning crescent Moon
crescent Theappearanceofthe Moon when it is between a new Moon and a half Moon.
gibboUs When between half and a full disk of a body can be seen lighted by the Sun.
phase The differing appearance of a body that is closer to the Sun, and that is illuminated by it.
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