... NGC 3314: When Galaxies Overlap . ... The foreground spiral is viewed nearly face-on, its pinwheel shape defined by young bright star clusters. ... April's spectacular geocentric celestial event was a rare hybrid eclipse of the Sun - a total or an annular eclipse could be seen depending on the observer's location. ... Later that century, it became understood that Saturn's unusual protrusions were rings and that when the Earth crosses the ring plane, the edge-on rings will appear to disappear. ...