Twice each month the moon crosses the aptly-named ecliptic — the path of the sun through our daytime sky — at points that astronomers called nodes, according to EarthSky. If a new moon crosses ...
The lunar nodes are not planets or celestial bodies but two calculated points that lie between the sun’s ecliptic and the moon’s orbit. Their position changes signs, cycling through the entire ...
During autumn at mid-northern latitudes every year, the ecliptic extends nearly vertically upward from the eastern horizon before dawn. That geometry favors the appearance of the faint zodiacal ...