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Photos: Stellar views from the Hubble at 17

April 25, 2007 9:13 AM PDT

This never-before-seen shot of Uranus shows the ice moon Ariel as it passes around its planet. The white dot is Ariel, while the black dot is Ariel's shadow. From Uranus, you would view this event as a solar eclipse with the moon briefly blocking out the Sun as it passed.

Photo by NASA, ESA, L. Sromovsky (University of Wisconsin, Madison), H. Hammel (Space Science Institute), and K. Rages (SETI)

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