FESU is welcoming the Eid occasions and the birth of the month while it will be a good educational season start after a week nationwide.
The crescent moon appears above the southern Iraqi city of Basra on the first day of the Islamic holy month of Ramadan on March 23, 2023. (Image credit: HUSSEIN FALEH/AFP via Getty Images)
The new moon occurs just after midnight on Thursday (April 20). When the first sliver of moon appears on April 21 or 22 after the new moon, it will mark the end of the holy month of Ramadan for Muslims across the globe, while also signaling the end of a rare type of eclipse.
The new moon phase signifies the point in the 29.5-day-long lunar cycle when the moon passes close to the sun and is swallowed by its light. According to In the Sky(opens in new tab), the Earth, the moon, and the sun are aligned in a roughly straight line during the new moon, with the moon in the middle, appearing in front of the sun.
Thus, all of the light from our star is shining on the far side of the moon, meaning the lunar face we see from Earth is almost completely dark. Over the coming days, sunlight will begin to creep across the lunar face again with no more than a thin sliver of light showing at the edge of the moon at first during the waxing crescent phase.
