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A sharp silhouette of spaceship Atlantis and the International Space Station, a mere spot against the mottled yellow mass of the Sun. NASA’s Astronomy Picture of the Day for 21 Sept. is somewhat surreal, and difficult to believe that it is a real photograph.

I’m not sure whether I am most amazed by the fact we can construct a space station in orbit around our planet, the fact that we can photograph this from the Earth and easily view the images from our own homes, or the magnitude of our sun and our comparative insignificance.

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