NASA Photographer Sees International Space Station Cross the Sun

Talk about being in the right place at the right time! NASA photographer Joel Kowsky captured this composite view of the International Space Station — the largest manmade structure in space — as it crossed in front of the sun earlier this month. Kowsky was in Newbury Park, California and ready to photograph the station when it appeared to cross the face of the sun on Dec. 17 at mindblowing about 5 miles per second (that's 18,000 mph, or 28,968 km/h)! Ten of the images were then combined into a single composite to create this view of the station's silhouette moving across the sun. More

(Source: Space.com - Dec 29)