Human Artifacts Dwarfed By The Sun

December 30th, 2006

Bad Astronomy has taken the trouble to list its Top 10 Astronomy Images for 2006, which also includes our own favorites like the face and water on Mars, and that Saturnian perspective of Earth. What you’re seeing here is not an egg yolk on a big black fat plate of nothing, but the Sun, and that dot near the equator is the International Space Station, while the even tinier dot beside it is the undocking space shuttle. The photo was taken on September 17, 2006, where the crew said “cheese,” but nobody cared.

Close-up shot after the jump.