Sentence examples for but a moon from inspiring English sources

But a moon that thin and waning is only visible in the early morning in the northern hemisphere.

India has not announced plans for a space mission with astronauts, but a moon mission without them is set for 2008.

But a moon going around a large planet in such an orbit is saved from such a fate; as it orbits its parent orbiting the star all of its surface will, from time to time, be bathed in the star's welcome light.In the heavens as it is not on EarthMoons orbiting planets far away from their stars may also be more hospitable to life than Earth-sized planets would be in similar orbits.

The full moon actually fell on Friday, and it was wasn't just a full moon, but a blue moon, the second full moon of the month, and the last blue moon until July 2015.

What made it more remarkable was that the person who signed it was not one of the obviously thrusting young pretenders to Kohl's CDU throne, but a moon-faced and oddly unmemorable protege whom he used to refer to, dismissively, as das Mädchen: the girl.

The people of Pandora, the Na'vi, live not on a planet in orbit around a distant sun, but on a moon of such a planet.

But if a moon revolves faster than the planet spins as Phobos does it moves inward and the planet's gravity tears it to pieces, which smash into the surface below.

Sure, Americans landed on the moon, Ray says, but a different moon, not the one we see in the sky.

But say on a moon like Titan.

But Eris has a moon, Dysnomia, meaning lawlessness, a subtle pun based on the old nickname Xena, the "Warrior Princess" character played by Lucy Lawless on TV.

But stepping up for a moon shot?