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Monday, February 18, 2008

Spaceships Transit the Sun

In astronomy, a "transit" is when an object passes in front of a much larger object. It's sort of like an eclipse, only the object in front is WAY too small to block the object behind.

Here is a photograph of the ISS (International Space Station) and the Space Shuttle Atlantis transiting the Sun in sometime in the past week:

This photo was taken by Ricardo de Nasso of Pisa, Italy. I found it on http://www.spaceweather.com/. (Sorry, I can't find any direct URL there so that's the best link I can post!)

1 comment:

Markle said...

I have seen another picture like this, except it was not the same space shuttle(I don't think) and I saw it in National Geographic.