Posted by axxxr
It looks like a speck of dust on the surface of the sun. But this spectacular picture shows the space shuttle Atlantis alongside the International Space Station (ISS) silhouetted as they orbit the earth.
The image was taken in Normandy by French astrophotographer Thierry Legault. He used a digital camera attached to a £5,000 specially kitted-out telescope.
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Posted by BobaFett
amazing pix, thx for it
never saw the sun like that before...
Posted by axxxr
It is an amazing picture....not something your see everyday...well its certainly the first time i've seen such an amazing picture from space!
Posted by darky
beautiful
Posted by QVGA
Looks like the yellow part of an egg.
Posted by axxxr
yeh i'll be thinking of this next time im eating my yolk!
Posted by mustafabay
Looks like one of those balls you see on google.
Posted by 02
Knowing the Sun is the biggest planet in the system.. that satelite must be really close to earth.
Posted by axxxr
Its things like this which me wonder....the human race can do all this yet we can't work out our differences on the one planet we all share...its pretty sad really.
Just imagine if every race,religion,colour put their minds together and looked passed our differences and worked together...we surely would have colonised the Moon,Mars and who knows where else by now.
Posted by EastCoastStar
@02, the satellite is right outside of the atmosphere. its still in earths gravitational pull, so its millions of miles from the sun. the ISS revolves around earth.
i watch the shuttle go up every single time in person, and it still amazes me,
Posted by QuickShare
captivating!.. so they did zoomed the camera to get such view of the sun then?
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Posted by max_wedge
yes! The camera was attached to a $5000 telescope, I think that qualifies as a "zoom lense"
Posted by *Jojo*
@axxxr - Nice one ! But I was just wondering why those 2 satellites or what have you did NOT fry/scorch considering that it's that CLOOOOOOOSE to the Sun
Esatonian Astronomers please explain . . .
Posted by QuickShare
@max_wedge
man $5000 for a telescope.. wondering if this is the camera body they're using..
Posted by max_wedge
@jojo, the iss is 250 miles from the earth, the Sun is 93 million miles from the earth. I don't think they are close enough to burn
@quickshare, now THAT's a camera body
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Posted by EastCoastStar
@jojo, like max said, its farrrrrrrrrr from the sun. the pic just makes it look close.
and you said sumthn about 2 satellites, its just 1, and the shuttle too.
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Posted by axxxr
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I think \"Esatonian Astronomers\" max_wedge and Eastcoaststar have answered you question!
The sun is so hot that anything that goes with even a million miles of it will get fried to a crisp....including the shuttle and space station!
The sun is one planet humans will never be a able to get close enough to...EVER!!
Posted by EastCoastStar
we will never get close to Venus eather, let alone Mercury!
Posted by axxxr
Unless in the year 3000 someone invents a heat proof space ship!
Posted by max_wedge
ultra strong magnetic fields could provide shielding but the technology doesn't exist yet to build them strong enough.