Wednesday, May 20, 2009

Another Cosmically Cool Camera Capture

Check out the picture below.  It's of the sun (yes, our sun) taken at 1/8000 of a second.  Pretty nifty in itself, but that's not the really cool thing.  Can you see the little teeny, tiny black dot in the lower left quadrant?  Can you guess what it is?



You probably can't tell from that picture.  Let me post a higher resolution photo now.  Click on the picture below to bring it up to full size and look at the spot again.  Can you see it now?  Does it look to be in the shape of, oh, maybe a... shuttle?  Maybe a shuttle named Atlantis?  And how about that little dot just below it?  Why, it's none other than the Hubble Space Telescope!




Thanks to one of my new favorite sites, Bad Astronomy, now a part of Discovery, for these pics.