Earth, sun, moon: three objects ... The problem again is the size of things. In my animation, not only are the objects too big but the orbital radius of the moon around Earth is way too big.

So O'Donoghue made an animation to demonstrate what's going on. It shows how Earth and the moon will move over the ... barycenter is sometimes inside the sun, sometimes outside of it.

NASA has shared a baffling new animation ... the moon in its orbit, then the moon catching up as SDO swings around Earth’s dusk side,’ NASA explains. ‘During the transit the sun moves ...

A total lunar eclipse happens when Earth slips in front of the sun to cast ... from NASA's animation, which actually illustrates the precise appearance of Earth and the moon during the total ...

THIS mind-blowing animation squeezes the whole of Earth's history into 140 seconds. The clip, put together by The Sun, displays ... forming the Moon. As we pass north through the home counties ...

The sun and moon are different sizes and located at different distances from the Earth, as confirmed by an array of measurement approaches including radar, lasers and calculations based on ...

In the distant past, the Moon was close enough to Earth so that it could block the Sun’s entire disk and then some. Our prehuman ancestors would not have witnessed the beautiful coronal displays ...

What is a lunar eclipse and why does it make the moon look red? When the sun, Earth and moon all align so that the moon passes into the Earth's shadow, there's a lunar eclipse. During a total ...

A small space rock that lingered near Earth last year and was referred to as its temporary “mini-moon” may actually ... the object’s orbit around the sun is similar to Earth’s, suggesting ...