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Chance Triple Alignment: Plane, Space Station, Sun
This shot captured an unexpected silhouette. Which is it? It isn't the sunspots, the small dark regions caused by concentrated magnetic fields visible around the Sun's bright disk. Sunspots typically last for weeks and were expected, since these spots were seen previously. It isn’t the International Space Station (ISS), the small dark structure on the middle left. This is because the featured picture was planned…
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- APOD · Petr Horalek / Inst. Physics Opava
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- International Space Station
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- ap260922
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