A cosmic coincidence produced an amazing image for a lucky photographer on the ground during a rare celestial alignment earlier this month.
On May 9, Mercury passed in front of the sun, transiting our nearest star for the first time in close to a decade.
At one point as the transit occurred, the International Space Station also passed in front of the sun, allowing photographer Thierry Legault to capture both the orbiting space lab and the small planet in one shot.
Legault was in Philadelphia when he captured the image, one of the few places where he would have been able to see the transit of both the planet and the station across the sun at the same time. Read more…
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