... As the New Moon continues this season's celestial shadow play, an annular solar eclipse track begins in western Australia at 22:30 UT on May 9 -- near sunrise on May 10 local time. ... Tails of Comet Lemmon . ... First of all, just about every comet that nears the Sun displays two tails: a dust tail and an ion tail. ... Is that a spaceship or a cloud? ... As it climbed into the clear sky, the Moon just grazed the dark, umbral shadow of planet Earth in the year's first partial lunar eclipse. ...