This photograph, taken by Thierry Legault with an exposure time of 0.2 milliseconds, shows two objects passing in front of the sun. The first object, the moon, is obvious. The picture shows the partial solar eclipse on January 4th as seen from Muscat, Oman. However, the picture also shows the Earth's second largest satellite: the International Space Station. The space station, which can be seen here slightly above and to the left of the center, crossed the frame in less than a second. Pretty amazing, then, that the photographer was able to capture this image.
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