Tags: space

I think the descrip­tion of the photo is all that’s needed:

Atlantis cap­tured in solar tran­sit with a solar-​​filtered Taka­hashi 5-​​inch refract­ing tele­scope and a Canon 5D Mark II.

Awe­some.

Photo by NASA + Thierry Legault, found on O’Reilly
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Lost in Space

Incred­i­ble and par­tially cor­rob­o­rated story about two Ital­ian broth­ers who in the six­ties, with a lot of imag­i­na­tion and a lit­tle bit of tech­nique man­aged to tap into Amer­i­can and Russ­ian cos­mo­nauts com­mu­ni­ca­tions. While some of it seems a bit far fetched, if the Soviet Union man­aged to cover the deaths of 120 engi­neers for 30 years, they’ll prob­a­bly ok with with­hold­ing proof of their mistakes.