Story Created:
May 15, 2009 at 2:49 PM CDT
Story Updated:
May 15, 2009 at 2:49 PM CDT
Take a close look at the image of the sun provided by NASA
It was shot from Florida on Tuesday. The dark speck is not a sunspot, or a planet, or dirt on the lens. It's the shuttle Atlantis, the day after launch, just happening to make a transit of the sun's disc as it orbited at an altitude of 300 miles, closing in on the Hubble telescope for its Wednesday rendezvous.
The camera was heavily stopped down. As the old saying goes, don't try this at home.
(Photo credit: NASA/Thierry Legault)
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