Signs of the Quran - Astronomy

The sun and the moon have direct significant influence on life on earth. The light of the sun brings almost all energy to the earth which is present on its surface apart from the volcanic lava (see G6) and the under water vents of black smokers (B1). It's light not only nourishes the plants in combination with CO2, the water cycle or the temperature but it also controls the biological clocks inside each and every cell of every living being on the surface of the planet, since it hits the earth in different angles during the day as the earth turns around it's own axis and the angle changes also between winter and summer increasingly with the distance to equatorial regions.

So we can distinguish between different times of the day, such as morning, midday and afternoon and also between the seasons. Without the sun this would not be possible. Solar clocks have been in wide use since antique times also the direction of North, South, East and West can be predicted by observing it, given the position.

The moon reflects the light of the sun and brightens up certain nights in different stages in the shadow of the earth. Many biological and geological phenomena depend on that such as the period of women, the fertility of fish, plants, breeding seasons, the high and low tide of the oceans and also much more. It turns around the earth in a month and returns to the same stage exactly in this time and 12 times a year. The sun and the moon together enable us to measure time in days, months and years, etc.

The picture above shows THE SUN-MOON-EARTH SYSTEM WHICH ENABLES US TO MEASURE TIME. We can associate the following Ayah:

"He it is that cleaveth the daybreak (from the dark): He makes the night for rest and tranquillity and the sun and moon for the reckoning (of time)"

Surah Al-An'am 6 Ayah 96