I first discovered this on today’s APOD, and felt compelled to repost it here after reading about it further on the SOHO website. Feast your eyes upon this fantastic composite view of Wednesday’s total solar eclipse:

Credits: Jay M. Pasachoff and the Williams College Eclipse Expedition, from Kastellorizo, Greece and SOHO, NASA/ESA.
A merger of a […]

Destination: ISS. Image Credit: NASA/Bill Ingalls
After Wednesday’s successful launch from Kazakhstan, the Soyuz spacecraft carrying the Expedition 13 crew is scheduled to dock with the station tonight at 11:19 p.m. EST. Live coverage of the docking begins at 10 p.m. Eastern on NASA TV.
What a fantastic photo!
If you’ve never witnessed spacecraft docking with the International […]

The Soyuz spacecraft and booster on the pad and being prepared for launch, March 28th. Image Credit: RSC Energia
Bound for the International Space Station, Expedition 13 Commander Pavel Vinogradov and Flight Engineer Jeff Williams are scheduled for liftoff this evening at 9:30 p.m. EST, departing the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. The crew will launch aboard […]

Image Credit: NASA
The good news: there’s a total solar eclipse tomorrow.
The bad news: it won’t be visible from North America.
Here’s a video showing the path the Moon’s shadow will trace across the Earth.
However, a number of resources on the Internet will carry live feeds showing the eclipse in progress (totality begins at 5:54:59 a.m. Eastern […]

Image Credit: William K. Hartmann; Courtesy of UCLA
Whew!
It appeared the DAWN mission had been officially cancelled back on March 3rd. Several days later, NASA agreed to review that decision, a move apparently made possible via new management procedures implemented by the agency’s Administrator, Michael Griffin. NASA announced today that the mission has been reinstated.
The full […]

Today, the Cassini imaging team released several new maps of Jupiter, assembled from images taken by the spacecraft back in 2000 while en route to Saturn. The level of detail present in these polar stereographic projections is just amazing. Take some time to browse through the full set — it’s easy to get lost […]

After successfully entering orbit back on March 10th, Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter returned its first images of the red planet today! The spacecraft won’t achieve its optimum science orbit until this November, so these first views will have to last us a while. And, rest assured it will be well worth the wait. The images below […]