<p>A composite of five images shows the <a href="http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/station/main/index.html">International Space Station</a>—with nine crewmembers on board—as it crosses in front of our sun on Sunday, September 6.</p>

Star Trail

A composite of five images shows the International Space Station—with nine crewmembers on board—as it crosses in front of our sun on Sunday, September 6.

Photograph by Bill Ingalls, NASA

Week's Best Space Pictures: Close-up on Ceres' Bright Spots

A typhoon continues to spin across the ocean and a dwarf planet gets a close-up.

Feed your need for heavenly views of the universe every Friday with our picks of the most awe-inspiring space pictures. This week, plasma dances across the sun's surface, a robot prototype tumbles closer to a future space launch, and Saturn gets blurry.

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