The Sun and Moon Gallery features images of the closest star to Earth and our Moon. Gallery highlights include: solar eclipses, flares, prominences, and spots, as well as lunar eclipses, craters, and basins.

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292 total photos
Last updated on 03-15-2010

• Conjunction
• Crater
• Hydrogen-alpha
• Lunar eclipse
• Mare
• Moon
• Occultation
• Prominence
• Solar eclipse
• Sun
• Sunspot
• Transit
• Umbra