Does the moon look the same every night? No the moon the does not look the same every night. The appearance works in a cycle of 29.5 days continuously. This is caused by the orbit around the earth that gives us different viewing angles of the sunlit side of the moon witch is called lunar phases. The moon is a round sphere, but has 8 distinct phases as seen from earth ( new moon, waxing crescent , first quarter, waxing gibbous, full moon, waning gibbous, third quarter, waning crescent). (NASA Science,2023). (Ask the learners to identify the different phases of the moon)