A bright sunspot was spotted in the background of a recent transit image as the International Space Station passed in front of the Sun. (Image credit: Andrew McCarthy/@cosmic_background)
An astrophotographer has captured a stunning moment during a powerful solar flare, in which the International Space Station (ISS) appears to fly over the surface of our star.
Andrew McCarthy, aka Cosmic Background, took this amazing image on June 15 in the Sonoran Desert, Arizona. He originally planned to take a standard “transit” image of the ISS passing between Earth and the sun. However, as McCarthy was setting up his camera, he noticed that one of the sunspots, called AR4114, had begun to “flare,” he told Live Science.
Through a combination of luck and skill, McCarthy captured the space station as it flew almost past a bright sunspot, revealing super-hot loops of glowing plasma, or solar prominences, moments before they were blasted into space in a violent explosion. Capturing both objects in the same frame makes it a “one-of-a-kind photo,” McCarthy said on X.
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