the moon goes through its 27.3-day cycle of phases because it orbits the sun even as the sun orbits the earth the constellations visible overhead at a given time change through the year because the earth spins clockwise (viewed from northern hemisphere perspective) on its axis in winter, earth's days are only 23 h 02 m long;
(the moon; goes; through its 27.3-day cycle of phases; because it orbits the sun even as the sun orbits the earth the constellations visible overhead at a given time change through the year because the earth spins clockwise (viewed from northern hemisphere perspective) on its axis in winter, earth's days are only 23 h 02 m long;) (earth's days; are; only 23 h 02 m long) (it; orbits; the sun) (the earth; spins; clockwise (viewed from northern hemisphere perspective; T:in winter)
the moon earth's days it the earth
goes are orbits spins
through its 27.3-day cycle of phases because it orbits the sun even as the sun orbits the earth the constellations visible overhead at a given time change through the year because the earth spins clockwise (viewed from northern hemisphere perspective) on its axis in winter, earth's days are only 23 h 02 m long;
only 23 h 02 m long
the sun
clockwise (viewed from northern hemisphere perspective T:in winter