Some 239,000 miles in space lies the amorphous chunk of rocks and minerals we call the moon.  Unlike the sun which is a boiling mass of gases and fire, the moon is cold and dark.  It's lifeless, yet who would be convinced of that fact on a night when the full radiance of the sun is reflected from it to our world?  But the light of the moon is only a reflection which comes from a far more powerful source, the sun.