I was looking at the moon and noticed how bright it was. Then, it led to this question – where does the moon get its light?
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From the same place our planet gets its light, from the Sun.
Although the moon can sometimes be so amazingly bright, it actually can’t produce its own light. The glow we see on the moon is a reflection of the sun’s light. The moon reflects around 3 to 12 percent of the sunlight it gets. Sunlight bounces off the craters, lava flows, and old volcanoes on the moon’s surface, and that’s what we see.
The moon doesn’t produce light – that’s why we have phases of the moon. The moon gets sunlight and reflects it. While the moon revolves around the earth, only some part of it is facing the sun, and that’s the only part that’s lit, and that’s the phase we see. The rest is just in the dark. If the moon produced its own light, we wouldn’t have different phases of the moon.