The latest from Cassini offers another nice look at Saturn’s largest moon, Titan:

Image credit: NASA/JPL/Space Science Institute
This infrared view shows features on the leading hemisphere of Titan, including the bright, crescent-shaped Hotei arcus (right of center), which is also informally called “the Smile” by researchers.
The view is centered on the bright region called Xanadu. Above […]

Check out the latest pick of the week from SOHO (the SOlar and Heliospheric Observatory):

Image Credit: SOHO (ESA & NASA)
From Min. to Max. to Min.
This week SOHO offers a sense of the kind of retrospective that ten years of solar observations from the same instrument can offer: a comparison of three EIT 304 Angstrom images […]

Image Credit: NASA/JPL/Space Science Institute
The Cassini spacecraft passed within a cosmic stone’s throw of Telesto in October, 2005 capturing this shot of the tiny Trojan moon.
Telesto (24 kilometers, or 15 miles across) appears to be mantled in fine, icy material, although a few craters and some outcrops and/or large boulders are visible. […]

The Planetary Society has posted a call to action, and it’s an opportunity to make your voice heard.
Under current plans, NASAs budget for fiscal year 2007 will severely cut back on space science efforts, and several important programs face being “delayed indefinitely (see syn. @ termination). The agency’s refined goals for the short term divert […]

Canon 20D & 17-40L, 1/125″, F/11

This just in from the folks at Sky & Telescope:
For first time in 21 years, and the sixth time in recorded astronomical history, the recurrent nova RS Ophiuchi has erupted into naked-eye visibility. As late as February 10, 2006, the star was still magnitude 11.0, where it spends most of its time with only […]

One of the greatest cartoons of all time:

The Far Side™ by Gary Larson; © 1999 FarWorks, Inc.
“So, in the general relativistic sense, we find that the dynamic friction of the tensor light cone is actually negative, creating a local convergence of photons, which causes the stars at night to be big and bright… especially here, […]