• Question: Why is the Moon sometimes out in the day?

    Asked by penguin123 to Emma, Jimmy, Janet, Niall, Simon on 15 Mar 2013.
    • Photo: Niall Crawford

      Niall Crawford answered on 15 Mar 2013:


      The moon is often out in the day, it and the sun aren’t always on opposite sides to each other, and so it is often in the sky during the day but we can’t see it because the sun is so bright. The earth rotates once a day, half being in dark away from the sun, which make the night and day. The moon rotates around the earth once a month, changing how much of the moon we can see due to how much of the sun it reflects. And we rotate around the sun once a year, with the tilt of the earth creating the seasons.

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