Sun + ISS = Amazing

Probably one of the coolest, most amazing, beautiful photos I have seen.





The ISS in front of the Sun. Is really amazing. To me that is tax payers money spent well, (as well as fixxing Hubble)

The shire size comparison is crazy!

[Kanadier]

that's not the real sun though... is it? The sun is around 200,000 times the size of the Earth or something like that...

[brentbizzle]

That IS the sun, but that's NOT the ISS! It's the shuttle and Hubble. The first shot are the two tethered. You can find other shots that show the ISS passing in front of the sun, but these aren't those photos.

EDIT: Here's one of the ISS http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/image/ ... ault_f.jpg

[crait]

I thought that the sun was so big that 99% of our solar system is the sun.

and contains more than 99.9% of the Solar System's mass.

I thought that the sun was so big that 99% of our solar system is the sun.

and contains more than 99.9% of the Solar System's mass.

That is correct, the Sun weights 99.9% of the total mass in our Solar System. Doesn`t mean it takes up 99.9 % of it though.

And yea, thats for the relink must have used the wrong one. Guess that what happens when you are online at like 2 in the morning.

[Kanadier]

The Shuttle isn't that scale compared to the sun, it's just closer to the camera (for you "slower" people. lol)

The picture was a zoom in taken from the ground at a point when the space station/shuttle eclipsed the sun. This is why the sun looks so large by comparison.

If the picture were taken from space the sun would appear smaller and the shuttle\space station consequently would appear larger

The Shuttle isn't that scale compared to the sun, it's just closer to the camera (for you "slower" people. lol)

LOL
im surprised people didnt realize this

[Kanadier]

The picture was a zoom in taken from the ground at a point when the space station/shuttle eclipsed the sun. This is why the sun looks so large by comparison.

If the picture were taken from space the sun would appear smaller and the shuttle\space station consequently would appear larger

Slower? or did you mean it the other way around? lol