While it ’s the International Space Station that tends to take all the glory , there is in fact another : China ’s Tiangong-1 , which go into low - Earth orbit in 2011 . In this amazing film , you’re able to see it silhouetted against the Sun .
Captured by astrophotographer Thierry Legault on June 16 in southern France , the prototype evidence the H - shaped object between the sunspots . In fact , Shenzou-10 space vehicle is docked to Tiangong-1 right now , and each one makes up one-half of the H. Do n’t be fooled by view : the two spacecraft are about 20 meters across , whereas they solarise spots which see rough the same size of it are as big as Earth . Just 500,000 times farther away .
The entire transit across the sun took less than half a 2nd — so Legault did an amazing job snapping the image . [ Thierry LegaultviaBad Astronomy ]
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