Apollo 17 was the final mission of the US Apollo lunar landing program, and was the sixth landing of humans on the moon. This photograph was taken by the Apollo crew during their time on the moon. To the far right, there are three faint lights in a triangle formation that seem to be located out in space.

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The sun is back. One of the largest sunspot groups in years rotated over the sun’s northeastern limb this weekend and will soon turn to face earth, with a 70% chance of M-flares and a 5% chance of the more powerful X-flares. Amateur astronomer Alan Friedman tooks this picture of the AR1476 [...]

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Last night’s perigee moon was quite spectacular. Due to the moon’s oval orbit around the Earth, it yesterday appeared about 14% larger and 30% brighter than when it’s farthest from the planet. Check out some pretty amazing photos of the super moon taken in different parts of the world.

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This photo of the recent solar eclipse was taken from Muscat, Oman by French astrophotographer Thierry Legault. The duration of the International Space Station (ISS) transit was only 0.86 seconds. Talk about timing! The image shows the sun at 150 million km, the moon at about 400.000 km and the ISS at 500 km.

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Here are some amazing photos of the total lunar eclipse that ended just a few hours ago. I had hoped to see it here in Amsterdam, but the weather and TPOS (The Powers of Sleepiness) wanted otherwise.

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The approaching lunar eclipse of December 21, 2010 falls on the same date as the northern winter solstice. The last time this occurred was in 1638 — a whopping 372 years ago. The total eclipse lasts around an hour from 02:41 am to 03:53 am EST (07:41 am to 08:53 am [...]

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