Yesterday, some folks were treated to an annular eclipse — where the Moon passes between the sun and the Earth, but its apparent size is not enough to actually cover the sun entirely. The result is untold numbers of beautiful pictures of a fiery ring in the sky. We’ve gathered some of the best photos and videos of this astronomical event from around the world. Please see them after the break, won’t you?

A headlining exhibit at the Smithsonian since 1985, the Space Shuttle Enterprise has landed at New York. In the coming days, it will be ferried by barge to its new home at the Intrepid Air and Space Museum on Manhattan’s west side. However, today New Yorkers were treated to a view of the test shuttle’s flight on the back of a modified Boeing 747. Though it was never built to fly in space, Enterprise sure looks good in the air in this Instagram photo from NBC.

The Cassini probe has been hanging around Saturn since 2004, and has given scientists an unprecedented view of the ringed planet and its moons. One of the more interesting of Saturn’s natural satellites is Enceladus, which is known to not only have an icy crust, but periodically shoots geysers of water vapor, ice, and tantalizingly organic compounds. Cassini has sampled this spray before, and did again three days ago. While the analysis of the spray is probably some time away, we can enjoy these spectacular photos of Enceladus and the moon Tethys. See them, after the break.

When Voyager 2 made its flyby of the strangely tilted planet Uranus, scientists got their first glimpse of what an aurora looked like on the icy blue planet. However, such lights have never been observed on Uranus from Earth, until last year when a team of scientists used careful planning and the Hubble Telescope to watch the lights on the distant planet.

As you may recall, Jupiter and Venus have been putting on quite the show together as they pace each other across the night sky. For those of you that haven’t seen some of the more dramatic conjunctions of these planetary bodies, Patrick Cullis has put together this beautiful time lapse video. What’s more, he’s pointed his camera above Boulder, Colorado’s beautiful Flatiron rock formations. It’s an unforgettable view.

In 2010, astronomers announced that they’d discovered at least five — or as many as seven — exoplanets orbiting the sunlike star HD 10180 in the constellation Hydrus. Now, a new analysis of that data suggests that there are least seven planets, but as many as nine orbiting the distant star. If true, this would make the HD 10180 the most populous exoplanet system yet discovered.

On Earth, the coming of Spring is marked with singing birds, bright sun, and the culmination of the college basketball season. On Mars, things are a little quieter. These dunes in the northern polar regions have only a few specks of white ice clinging to them as they warm up in a late Martian spring. Captured by the HiRISE camera aboard the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter a few days ago, its a rare and mesmeric look at the changing seasons on the red planet.

Over the past few weeks, you might have noticed two bright lights in the night sky that stuck close to each other night after night. These weren’t stars, but rather the planets Jupiter and Venus traversing across our view. On Sunday, the two planets lined up with our moon in a spectacular conjunction made all the better by Rick Ellis’ multiple exposures, tracking the progress of the triplet as they make their way across the sky.

As part of its own Great Paper Airplane project, Pima Air & Space Museum built and flew a 45-foot-long paper airplane with a 24-foot wingspan over the Arizona desert. The plane, dubbed Arturo’s Desert Eagle, was helped into the sky by a Sikorsky S58T helicopter, and upon reaching 2,703 feet up, was let loose to fly.

Scientists at the Swinburne University of Technology are saying they’ve made a surprising discovery: A rectangular galaxy. Being called a “emerald cut” galaxy because of it similarity to a styled gem, the the galaxy is extremely small with 50 times fewer stars than our own galaxy and is about 70 million lightyears away. Though its shape surprised scientists, they’ve already got a theory as to why it is the way it is.