... Spanning the sky behind the majestic Clouds of Magellan is an unusual stream of gas: the Magellanic Stream. ... The glittering objects visible in this photograph are, from lower left to upper right: Phoenix, our Moon, Venus, and Jupiter. ... An Annular Eclipse of the Sun . ... Vega . ... Vega is a bright blue star 25 light years away. ... Comet Hyakutake and the Milky Way . ... Two years ago, the Great Comet of 1996, Comet Hyakutake, inched across our northern sky during its long orbit around the...