Emily of The Planetary Society posted a beautiful video showing what it would look like if the Earth had rings like Saturn. Absolutely beautiful!

Very cool:
NASA - Hubble Space Telescope Captures Rare Jupiter Collision

This video is completely awesome.
Thanks to Bad Astronomy for the pointer!

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Poor NASA—spaceflight is hard, and bureaucracy makes it harder. But, in more fun news, there are two shuttles out right now! Endeavor is standing by to rescue Atlantis if it is damaged on its mission to repair Hubble. They were both briefly visible (with their service structures pulled back) this weekend.

Astronomy Picture of the Day has this pinhole camera image of the sun over 6 months. Exposures like this are called “solargraphs”, and the instructions for making the camera out of an aluminum can are here.

So very cool.

Astronomy Picture of the Day has a four-minute movie today. It’s an incredibly beautiful sequence of time-lapse pictures of the sky, the sun, clouds, the moon, stars, planets, and satellites.

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In honor of the 400th anniversary of the invention of the telescope, and the 40th anniversary of our first landing on an alien world, 2009 is the International Year of Astronomy. Start your celebration inside by watching the video, and then go out and look at the sky!