A magic moment (astronomically speaking)

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“On June 8th, in a tiny village in Slovakia, Tomas Maruska took a picture that is … beyond rare. It shows Venus and the International Space Station (ISS) transiting the Sun at the same time.

“The double transit was visible only inside a narrow corridor a few hundred meters wide. And it was brief. The space station crosses in the Sun in a split second!

“Maruska knew when and where to look thanks to the predictions of Thomas Fly, an expert forecaster of ISS transits.”

Thanks so much to SpaceWeather.com!