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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. Transit by Brian+Gordon · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Here's a much more impressive transit.

  2. Shocking fact by GregoryD · · Score: 5, Interesting

    I find the most eye opening fact is that the sun is 93,000,000 miles behind the shuttle. It is an awesome display of the scale of the sun.

  3. Re:Astronomy Picture of the Day [ISS] by Tablizer · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Here's one with the space-station taken a few years ago:

    http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap060921.html
         

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  4. Simple??? by janwedekind · · Score: 5, Interesting

    When seeing a picture of a two-thousand ton manned space ship next to a space telescope with a huge nanometer accuracy mirror being repaired by a crew of people in space suits all whizzing through space with a class G star looming in the background, "simple" was not exactly the first thing which came to my mind.