Why does the moon and stars come out at night?

Answer 1

The sun rises in the east and sets in the west. This is, of course, apparent motion and not true motion.

Most people know that the Sun "rises in the east and sets in the west". However, most people don't realize that is a generalization. Actually, the Sun only rises due east and sets due west on 2 days of the year -- the spring and fall equinoxes! On other days, the Sun rises either north or south of "due east" and sets north or south of "due west."

Each day the rising and setting points change slightly. At the summer solstice, the Sun rises as far to the northeast as it ever does, and sets as far to the northwest. Every day after that, the Sun rises a tiny bit further south.

At the fall equinox, the Sun rises due east and sets due west. It continues on it's journey southward until, at the winter solstice, the Sun rises are far to the south as it ever does, and sets as far to the southwest.

Many, if not most, prehistoric cultures tracked these rising and settings points with great detail. If they had jagged mountains along the horizon, the exact points could be readily remembered. Without a suitably interesting horizon, standing stones could be arranged to line up with the various rising and setting points. Or, tree poles could replace the standing stones. Or, rock cairns could be used.

False

Answer 2

The stars are always there. But during the day, the glare of the sun's light being refracted all around makes the sky look blue, and the blue of the sky is brighter than the distant stars. If you could get down into a deep pit and look straight up at the sky, you might be able to see the brighter stars even in the daytime.

And during a solar eclipse, when the Sun's light is blocked by the Moon, the stars are also visible.

Answer 3

StarsBecause the stars are bright like the sun so we can only see the sun in the day though they are still there. MoonBecause the moon is around at the other side of the earth when it is day.

Answer 4

Take a flashlight and a tennis ball into a dark room. Close the door

1). Notice that you cannot see the ball.

2). Turn on the flashlight and shine it at the ball.

3). Notice that the front half of the ball is lit up and the back half of the ball is in shadow.

4). Look at the side of the ball. Notice that what you see is 1/2 lit up and 1/2 in shadow.

5). Now think of the moon as a tennis ball, think of the sun as a flashlight, and think about

everything that you have just seen in the dark room.

Answer 5

You can answer this one easily for yourself, by direct observation. Well, maybe not so

easily, because it does require hauling it out of bed within an hour after sunrise on a

clear morning. If you can manage that, just look around the sky and notice where the

sun is.

Alternatively, you can use what scientists call "deductive reasoning" and thereby

spare yourself a lot of aggravation. If you're around at the time of sunset (the time

when it's getting dark outside), you can look out and see where the sun is going down,

and you can reason that it must rise pretty close to the opposite point on the horizon,

halfway around the sky from where it's setting.

Here's one hint: The sun rises from the same direction everywhere on earth.

Answer 6

Depends. What do you consider "star" shaped. It's obviously not a five pointed shape, the way we normally draw stars. Star shapes may vary but since we are so far away from them, we see the shape of it's light that it emits. We can't actually see the star because it's light is too bright so when we look up at the night sky, we're seeing the light of it. And because of it's distance, it appears fairly small in size when actually, it bigger than you can ever imagine!

Answer 7

From your apparant position on the worlds globe the answer is yes and no. The stars are allways there, it is the earths rotation which gives for example the stras/sun rising in the east/ sinking in the west.

Answer 8

At night, it means we can't see the sun. But the sun still shines on the moon (just as it continues to shine on the other side of the earth). At various times of the month we can see the part of the moon that is lit by the sun, and it can look quite bright, but not enough to turn our day into night. There is an old joke "Of the sun and moon, the moon is most valuable for light, because the sun only shines during the day, when it is light anyway".

Answer 9

Stars do rise and set just like our sun, a star. While the rising and setting position of our sun changes daily, the position of other stars when they rise or set does not change. The times that they rise or set will change each day.

Answer 10

The stars that do rise do so in the east set in the west, just like the sun. It is because of the rotation of the earth. As is the case with the sun, the rising and setting of stars is an apparent motion and not a true motion; the sun and stars do not orbit around the earth. Depending on your location, some stars never go below the horizon.