Astronomy Picture of the Day . Cheering a Total Solar Eclipse . ... That's what many exuberant sky watchers did across Indonesia during a total eclipse of the Sun last week. There and then, the land and sky went dark during the day as our Sun disappeared for a few minutes behind our Moon. ... At the same time, in the opposite direction, NASA 's EPIC camera aboard NOAA 's DSCOVR satellite captured the shadow of the Moon moving across the Earth. ... Earth During a Total Eclipse of the Sun . ...