Picture Of The Day

The space shuttle Atlantis and the Hubble space telescope silhouetted against the sun. Amazing:

The exceptionally gifted astrophotographer Thierry Legault captured this stunning tableau just minutes before the crew of Atlantis caught up with and captured Hubble for its very last servicing mission on May 13, 2009. This shot has never been accomplished before, and it's magnificent. He used a 13 cm telescope, and camera that took a series of 16 images of 1/8000th of second each.

This is the kind of sweet shit Superman gets to see every day.