Direct from the "pick your jaw up off the floor" image department: Thierry Legault’s amazing image of space shuttle Atlantis preparing to dock with the International Space Station (ISS), captured while they transited the Sun!:
Image posted with permission of Thierry Legault, www.astrophoto.fr
Such amazing shots don’t just happen – Legault had to calculate where on Earth the transit would be visible from (he took this shot from near Madrid, in Spain), as well as the exact time. The maximum amount of time he had to take the shot (if placed perfectly), was only a half a second (the time for the space vehicles to transit the Sun).
For more information, and a stunning high-resolution version, click here.
