Amazing Images of Shuttle and Hubble Transiting Sun
| No, these aren’t sunspots finally appearing on our currently quiet sun. Check out these great images taken by NASA photographer Thierry Legault. The “spots” are actually the space shuttle Atlantis and the Hubble Space Telescope transiting across the sun! Legault’s website says these are the only images ever taken of a transit of a shuttle and the HST in front of the Sun. Legault was in Florida at the time he took this image, about 100 km south of the Kennedy Space Center on May 13th 2009 12:17 local time, several minutes before grapple of Hubble by Atlantis. |
For further perspective, consider this. The two man-made objects are roughly 375 miles away. The God-made object — 93,000,000 miles!
| When I consider thy heavens, the work of thy fingers, the moon and the stars, which thou hast ordained;
What is man, that thou art mindful of him? and the son of man, that thou visitest him? (Psalm 8:3,4) |
Oh, and here you can see Space Shuttle Atlantis and the International Space Station against the Sun.
WOW! That is really neat! Do you mind if I link this post to my facebook account?