Tuesday morning’s partial solar eclipse produced a gorgeous crescent sunrise in Europe,
French astrophotographer Thierry Legault traveled to Oman to snap this mind-blowing photo of the sun, moon and space station all lined up. The space station took just 0.86 seconds to cross the sun.
Legault is known for his stunning photos of spaceships crossing the sun, each of which was captured in less than a second. To lose hours staring at them, check out his Astrophoto.fr website.
Image: Thierry Legault
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Authors: Lisa Grossman