1. The Sun, the Moon, the planets and the stars, all rise in the east and set in the west. And that's because the Earth spins --- towards the east. The lunar month is the 29.53 days it takes to go from one new moon to the next.
2. Sometimes as the Earth orbits the sun, it comes between the sun and the moon. When this happens, the earth throws a dark shadow across the moon. This is known ad a lunar eclipse.
3. Sometimes the Moon passes between the earth and the sun. The moon blocks the light of the sun and a shadow of the moon is cast on the earth's surface. This is an eclipse of the sun or solar eclipse.
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