It looks like a speck of dust on the surface of the sun, but these spectacular pictures show the space shuttle Atlantis alongside the International Space Station (ISS) silhouetted as they orbit the earth. The images were taken in Normandy by French astrophotographer Thierry Legault. He used a digital camera attached to a £5,000 specially kitted-out telescope.[/p](//vny!://discoverseattle.net/image/sunspot_1.jpg)[/p](//vny!://discoverseattle.net/image/sunspot_2.jpg)[/p][a href="vny!://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/news/news.html?in_article_id=407636&in_page_id=1770"]vny!://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/news/news.html?in_article_id=407636&in_page_id=1770[/a]
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I did read that article somewhere. It's a spectacular picture which makes you wonder in awe...