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.

In the animation, you’re seeing the fully illuminated far side of the Moon! Yegads. The Moon goes around the Earth once a month on an orbit tilted to the Earth’s orbit around the Sun.

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 ...

This gravitational force is the reason we all stay grounded to Earth instead of floating away. The solar system is dominated by the Sun’s ... and became the Moon. This animation from NASA ...

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 ...

The images, which feature a fully lit far side of the moon ... toward the sun, providing measurements of solar particles. Position of DSCOVR relative to the Earth and the sun / Animation courtesy ...

The "dark side" of the moon looks even cooler when seen crossing ... has taken some pretty amazing images from its position between the Earth and Sun. An animation released Wednesday by NASA ...

The weird motions of planet Earth and its sun will be a fun sight for future NASA astronauts standing on the south pole of the moon, if a new agency animation is any indication. NASA's Scientific ...

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 ...

Earth is about to receive a visitor from outer space. No little green men, alas, but a tiny and temporary moon ... of this animation, Earth (blue dot at center) is stationary and the Sun is ...

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 ...