This is really cool
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.
The shuttle, which returned last week from a 12-day mission, and the space station can be seen in orbit 250 miles above the earth while the sun is 93 million miles away.
Click pic to enlarge and see a closer look at the shuttle and space centre
Consider for a moment the scale of the things we are looking at... the space shuttle is smaller than a 747 and looks like a pencil speck. The sun is 372000 times further away and fills the image............wowwwww!!!
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.
The shuttle, which returned last week from a 12-day mission, and the space station can be seen in orbit 250 miles above the earth while the sun is 93 million miles away.
Click pic to enlarge and see a closer look at the shuttle and space centre
Consider for a moment the scale of the things we are looking at... the space shuttle is smaller than a 747 and looks like a pencil speck. The sun is 372000 times further away and fills the image............wowwwww!!!
