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Why does the Moon look close some nights and far away on other nights?

  • Written by Silas Laycock, Professor of Astronomy, UMass Lowell
imageThe Moon often looks enormous when it first rises because of what is known as the Moon illusion.Roadcrusher/Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SAimage

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