... Follow the handle of the Big Dipper away from the dipper's bowl until you get to the handle's last bright star. ... Constructed from MESSENGER image and laser altimeter data, the scene looks north over the northeastern rim of the broad, lava filled Shakespeare basin. Across the Sun . ... A long solar filament stretches across the relatively calm surface of the Sun in this telescopic snap shot from April 27. ... Comet Churyumov Gerasimenko in Crescent . ... Planetary Nebula Mz3: The Ant Nebula . ...