January 5, 2011
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Photographer Thierry Legault got a little more than he bargained for in a trip that he took to Oman to capture a partial solar eclipse.
The picture shows what one would normally expect in a partial eclipse: the Moon blocking out part of the Sun – but a closer look revealed something else. Up near the top, a small TIE fighter-shaped object was doing some eclipsing of its own.
That TIE fighter-shaped object was actually the International Space Station (ISS), the other spot near the bottom is a sun spot roughly twice the size of our earth. Below, you can see another great shot taken by Legault, this time with the ISS in front of the Moon.
[Gizmodo]
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