The cause of the phases of the moon is a cycle that is close to_ long

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The moon has cycle phase of about 28 days.

Explanation:

Moon is directly impacted by the light that it absorbs from the sun and reflects this light which can be seen on earth and as the moon and the earth have a same cyclic rotation thus we tend to see the same side of the moon in every the same cycle and hence the patterns are of the new moon, half-moon and the full moon and the half and the new or declining moon again.

1. New moon -- Invisible

2. Waxing crescent. --- Late morning

3. First-quarter. --- Afternoon

4. Waxing Gibbous. Late afternoon

5. Full moon. --- Midnight

6. Waning gibbous. --- early morning

7 . last quarter. --- Late night

8. Waning crescent. --- Pre-dawn

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