{"id":40646,"date":"2025-09-24T12:35:11","date_gmt":"2025-09-24T12:35:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/40646\/"},"modified":"2025-09-24T12:35:11","modified_gmt":"2025-09-24T12:35:11","slug":"moon-phase-today-explained-what-the-moon-will-look-like-on-september-24-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/40646\/","title":{"rendered":"Moon phase today explained: What the moon will look like on September 24, 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We&#8217;re onto day three of the lunar cycle, and the moon is starting to become more visible now. There&#8217;s still some time until the full moon, but there&#8217;s still plenty to see as we progress through the lunar cycle, the eight-phase process of the moon&#8217;s visibility. <\/p>\n<p>Let&#8217;s find out what&#8217;s happening with the moon tonight, Sept. 24.<\/p>\n<p>What is today\u2019s moon phase?<\/p>\n<p>As of Wednesday, Sept. 24, the <a href=\"https:\/\/mashable.com\/article\/ispace-moon-lander-south-pole-image\" target=\"_blank\" data-ga-click=\"1\" data-ga-label=\"$text\" data-ga-item=\"text-link\" data-ga-module=\"content_body\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">moon <\/a>phase is Waxing Crescent, and according to <a href=\"https:\/\/moon.nasa.gov\/moon-observation\/daily-moon-guide\/?intent=011\" target=\"_blank\" data-ga-click=\"1\" data-ga-label=\"$text\" data-ga-item=\"text-link\" data-ga-module=\"content_body\" title=\"(opens in a new window)\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">NASA&#8217;s Daily Moon Observation<\/a>, there&#8217;s just 7% visible tonight.<\/p>\n<p>Sadly, there still isn&#8217;t enough of the moon being illuminated by the sun, so there&#8217;s nothing for us to see tonight. We go again tomorrow.<\/p>\n<p>When is the next full moon?<\/p>\n<p>The next full moon will be on Oct. 6. The <a href=\"https:\/\/mashable.com\/article\/september-full-moon-2025\" target=\"_blank\" data-ga-click=\"1\" data-ga-label=\"$text\" data-ga-item=\"text-link\" data-ga-module=\"content_body\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">last full moon<\/a> was on Sept. 7.<\/p>\n<p>What are moon phases?<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/science.nasa.gov\/moon\/moon-phases\/#hds-sidebar-nav-9\" target=\"_blank\" data-ga-click=\"1\" data-ga-label=\"$text\" data-ga-item=\"text-link\" data-ga-module=\"content_body\" title=\"(opens in a new window)\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">NASA<\/a> tells us that moon phases are part of a 29.5-day cycle of the moon\u2019s orbit. This changes the angles between the Sun, Moon, and Earth. Moon phases are how the moon looks from Earth as it goes around us; sometimes it looks full, sometimes it looks like it&#8217;s disappeared entirely, but we always see the same side of the moon, it&#8217;s just how much of it is lit up by the Sun that changes depending on where it is in its orbit. <\/p>\n<p>This is how we get full moons, half moons, and moons that appear completely invisible. There are eight main moon phases, and they follow a repeating cycle:<\/p>\n<p>\n            Mashable Light Speed\n        <\/p>\n<p>New Moon &#8211; The moon is between Earth and the sun, so the side we see is dark (in other words, it&#8217;s invisible to the eye).<\/p>\n<p>Waxing Crescent &#8211; A small sliver of light appears on the right side (Northern Hemisphere).<\/p>\n<p>First Quarter &#8211; Half of the moon is lit on the right side. It looks like a half-moon.<\/p>\n<p>Waxing Gibbous &#8211; More than half is lit up, but it\u2019s not quite full yet.<\/p>\n<p>Full Moon &#8211; The whole face of the moon is illuminated and fully visible.<\/p>\n<p>Waning Gibbous &#8211; The moon starts losing light on the right side.<\/p>\n<p>Last Quarter (or Third Quarter) &#8211; Another half-moon, but now the left side is lit.<\/p>\n<p>Waning Crescent &#8211; A thin sliver of light remains on the left side before going dark again.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"We&#8217;re onto day three of the lunar cycle, and the moon is starting to become more visible now.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":40647,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[111,139,69,147,392],"class_list":["post-40646","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-space","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-science","tag-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40646","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=40646"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40646\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/40647"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40646"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40646"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40646"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}