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http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/astropix.html Discover the cosmos!
http://blog.makezine.com/2011/01/05/amazingly-precise-photos-of-iss-sil/

Amazingly well-timed photos of ISS silhouetted against moon, sun @Makezine.com blog

Both these remarkable images were captured from the ground by French astrophotographer Thierry Legault. The first , showing the ISS passing in front of the full moon, was taken from Avranches, France, at 21:34 UTC on December 20, 2010. The space station, of course, is much closer to the camera than the moon is, and is moving at 7.5 km/s relative to the ground, the upshot of which is that this photograph was only possible for the 0.55 seconds it took the ISS to pass in front of the moon. Monsieur Legault knew that, in advance, planned for it, and got the shot. The second , even more remarkable photograph, shows a double partial eclipse of the sun, most obviously by the moon, to lower left, but also, again, by the ISS. The small dark spot to lower right is a sun spot larger than the Earth itself.
Click on any of the following thumbnail images for the most recent, full-resolution solar image of each type in the SDAC archive. http://umbra.nascom.nasa.gov/images/

Solar images at SDAC

Comet Lovejoy came into LASCO's view on Dec. 14 as a bright, white streak, skimmed across the Sun's edge about 140,000 km above the surface late Dec. 15 and early Dec. 16, 2011, furiously brightening and vaporizing as it approached the Sun...

Solar and Heliospheric Observatory Homepage

http://sohowww.nascom.nasa.gov/
In 1961, President John F. http://apollo.sese.asu.edu/

Apollo Image Archive

NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter, or LRO, has returned its first imagery of the Apollo moon landing sites.

LRO Sees Apollo Landing Sites

http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/LRO/multimedia/lroimages/apollosites.html