Astronomy Picture of the Day . Eclipse In The Shade . ... Near the shadow of the moon under a shady tree, dozens of images of a 1994 solar eclipse in progress are visible in this striking picture from the campus of Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois. ... Comet Hale-Bopp Over Val Parola Pass . ... Ida and Dactyl: Asteroid and Moon . ... NASA probe Deep Space 1 zoomed past asteroid 9969 Braille last week as it continued to test its new ion drive in the inner Solar System. ...