Aggh! It’s a TIE fighter. No wait, it’s a sunspot. No wait, it’s the International Space Station. But what’s it doing on the Sun? To wit:
Transiting the Sun is not very unusual for the ISS, which orbits the Earth about every 90 minutes, but getting one’s timing and equipment just right for a great image is rare. Strangely, besides that fake spot, in this recent two-image composite, the Sun lacked any real sunspots. The featured picture combines two images — one capturing the space station transiting the Sun — and another taken consecutively capturing details of the Sun’s surface. Sunspots have been rare on the Sun since the dawn of the current Solar Minimum, a period of low solar activity. For reasons not yet fully understood, the number of sunspots occurring during both the previous and current solar minima have been unusually low.
(Image: Rainee Colacurcio)
Dark side of the Sun.
Lovely picture, thanks. I could never get good solar pics so ones like this are lovely.
Wonderful picture, images like this are deeply thought provoking, the sun almost shimmers too.
that’s no moon
Jaffa cake with a torch behind it, sheeple!! Wake up!
and a loitering fruitfly?
Bit of chocolate coating from the other side.
ISS = Icarus Sadly Sizzles.