French astrophotographer Thierry
Legault had perfect timing. He captured an image of the Chinese space
station Tiangong-1 crossing the path of the sun. At Bad Astronomy, Phil
Plait writes:
In this picture, you can see the
station silhouetted against the Sun’s face; it’s the H-shaped object
between the sunspots. Right now, the Shenzou-10 spacecraft is docked to
Tiangong-1; each is one half of the H.
Perspective is funny; the
two spacecraft together are about 20 meters across but don’t look much
smaller than the sunspots … which are as large as our entire planet!
But, of course, they’re a wee bit farther away. Like, 500,000 times
farther.
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