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Feast your eyes on eclipses, northern lights and other out-of-this-world sights from August 2008. See the slide show

New rocket racer lifts off
Aug. 27: Watch the first test flight series for a beefed-up Rocket Racing League plane powered by Armadillo Aerospace's rocket engine.

Black hole star birth
Aug. 21: Msnbc.com science editor Alan Boyle narrates a computer simulation showing how massive stars could form around an even more massive black hole.

Eyes on the eclipse
The moon's shadow swept across the planet from Canada to China on Friday, delighting throngs of skywatchers who flocked to see a total eclipse of the sun.

Eclipse totality
Aug. 1: Watch the Exploratorium's coverage of a rare total solar eclipse, as seen from China.

Month in Space: Worlds of wonder
See awe-inspiring views of Mercury, Mars, Saturn and distant galaxies in July’s roundup of cosmic imagery.

Month in Space: Liftoffs and landings
See highlights from the shuttle Discovery’s flight, the Phoenix Mars Lander mission and much more in June’s roundup of cosmic pictures.

Touchdown on Mars
See the first pictures from NASA’s Phoenix Mars Lander – and the celebration back on Earth.

Earth as art
Click through a collection of beautiful Earth imagery captured from orbit by the Landsat 7 satellte.

2007: The year in space pictures
Experience an audio slide show highlighting the best outer-space images from 2007.

Celebrating Saturn
Fresh images from the ringed planet mark the 10th anniversary of the Cassini orbiter’s launch.

High-def Antarctica
Get a sampling of snapshots from the international LIMA database of Antarctic satellite imagery.

The first moonshots
See the highlights from NASA’s digital archive of Lunar Orbiter imagery, collected in 1966-1967.

How to build a moon base
Get a glimpse of experiments and concepts that are laying the groundwork for a lunar outpost.

See the universe

	Postcards from Jupiter NASA's New Horizons probe sends back snapshots of Jupiter and its moons, taken during a flyby.
NASA via AP	Earth from space An Earth Day selection of highlights from four decades of pictures taken by astronauts.
	Celebrating Saturn Fresh images from the ringed planet mark the 10th anniversary of the Cassini orbiter’s launch.
	Piles of 'Pillars' See the famous "Pillars of Creation" in a new light.
	Saturn's striped moon Images of Saturn's moon, Enceladus, as captured by Cassini.
NASA / JPL / Cornell	Two years on Mars Greatest hits from NASA's twin rovers
NASA / JPL / MSSS via Science	A changing Mars Mars Global Surveyor spots fresh deposits in gullies and other signs of a dynamic Red Planet.
	Hubble's Hits See the Hubble Space Telescope's best-known images.
AURA / STSCI / NASA	Mars' greatest hits See two decades' worth of Red Planet images.
NASA	Jewels of Jupiter See images of Jupiter and its moons.
NASA / JPL / Space Science Institute	Saturn Stunners The greatest hits from the Cassini mission.
NASA / AURA / STSCI	Dazzling Deaths See the nebulas that are created when stars die.

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Visions of flight
Get an inside look at the conception and construction of Virgin Galactic's SpaceShipTwo.

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Return to flight

AFP - Getty Images	Endeavour on the rise Trace the flight of a space teacher and other high points of the shuttle's mission in August 2007.
Reuters	Atlantis at work Follow the highlights of the shuttle Atlantis’ journey, from pre-launch preparations to liftoff and landing.
AP	The road to flight NASA’s long journey to fly the shuttle again.
Getty Images	We have liftoff! Relive the launch of space shuttle Discovery
NASA TV via AP	History-making spacewalk Discovery astronaut makes unprecedented fix
NASA via Getty Images	Back in space Highlights from Discovery's 14-day mission
Reuters	Safe landing Discovery and its crew welcomed back home

Eclipse images

Reuters	There goes the sun March 29, 2006: Solar eclipse offers spectacular show across world.
	Waiting for totality People from around the world gather in Side, Turkey.
AFP - Getty Images	A rare ring Oct. 3, 2005: Annular eclipse dazzles onlookers in Europe and Africa.
Corbis	Greatest eclipse hits See stunning images of past eclipses.

Space history

NASA	Sputnik scenes Historical photos reveal the machines and people behind the birth of the space age, 50 years ago.
	NASA's highs and lows 45 years of achievements and tragedies in U.S. human spaceflight.
NASA via Getty Images	Back to the moon September 2005: NASA unveils step-by-step plan to return in 2018
AFP - Getty Images	Deep Impact July 2005: NASA probe slams into comet
MSNBC.com	SpaceShipOne June 2004: Crowd watches first private manned spaceflight.
NASA	'We choose to go to the moon’ 1959-1969: Retrace the steps that preceded Apollo 11
NASA	‘One giant leap for mankind’ July 1969: Apollo 11 and the first lunar landing
NASA	'We leave as we came' 1969 and beyond: Our path in space since Apollo 11
Getty Images	Heights of fame Revisit the high points in the career of pioneer astronaut Wally Schirra, who died on May 3, 2007.

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