What The Moon Can Do

Noun area bounded by two concentric circles
Total eclipses leave just a solar corona visible, though when the apparent size of the moon is smaller than the sun, a bright annulus will surround the moon instead.
Noun an imaginary area in the sky that the sun, moon, and planets appear to travel through
zodiac
The moon's gravitational pull has made the Earth shift on its axis, which means the current zodiac signs may not be accurate.
Adjective arch of colors formed in the sky when moonlight shines through rain
moonbow
When the moon is near its fullest, and barely a cloud veils its face, certain locations on earth treat observers to this scarcely seen light phenomenon known as a moonbow.
Adjective impressive in manner or appearance
Saturn’s majestic rings could be the remnants of a moon that was stripped of its icy outer layer before colliding with the planet.
Adjective unable to think or act normally, especially because of being in love
moonstruck
Astronomical observers and people everywhere were a little moonstruck as the moon, at perigree, rose above the eastern horizon.
Adjective being born or beginning
US scientist Robin Canup has proposed that Saturn's rings, composed mostly of ice, may have formed when a large moon spiraled into the nascent planet.
Verb follow a correct or satisfactory course along a route
Moths use their angular relationship to the moon to navigate. When passing an artificial light this angle rapidly changes and the moth instinctively attempts to correct its course.
Noun point in the orbit of the moon or a satellite at which it is nearest to the earth
perigee
Astronomical observers and people everywhere were a little moonstruck as the moon, at perigee, rose above the eastern horizon.
Noun fact or situation that is observed to exist or happen
Certain locations on earth treat observers to the scarcely seen light phenomenon known as the lunar rainbow, or moonbow.
Noun powerful thrust into a surface or place
Ebb and Flow, two NASA space probes, have been orbiting the Moon and measuring its gravity field for the last year. Now that their fuel is depleted, NASA will orchestrate their death, a plunge into the lunar surface.