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Shuttle and Hubble Passing In Front of the Sun

Posted by timothy on from the ad-astra-per-alia-porci dept.

GvG was one of several readers to point out this "incredible photo clearly showing the silhouette of Atlantis and the Hubble Space Telescope as they passed in front of the Sun was taken Wednesday, May 13, 2009, from west of Vero Beach, Florida. The two spaceships were at an altitude of 600 km and they zipped across the sun in only 0.8 seconds." The image is all over the Web now, for good reason.

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  1. Re:Astronomy Picture of the Day by 1u3hr · · Score: 4, Insightful

    "Today" is relative. I saw a different one. Use a fixed date: http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap090516.html

  2. Re:Fly by 427_ci_505 · · Score: 3, Insightful

    IANAA, but the sun appears spherical instead of like a big flat bright disc because it is indeed a spherical object - not a big flat bright disc.

  3. It's amazing... by viyh · · Score: 4, Insightful

    ...how beautiful the simplest things can be.

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  4. Re:Transit by 4D6963 · · Score: 2, Insightful

    What?! Stop the press, we have someone for whom OGG playback in a browser works flawlessly!!

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