The Solar Eclipse 2017 Star Wars Funnies
By: Trends Desk | New Delhi |
Updated: August 22, 2017 12:03:05 pm
The International Space Station spotted passing over the Sun. (Photo Source: NASA)
Seems like the photobombing culture ruling earthlings have travelled all the way up to Space and this year's photobomb award clearly will be taken away by the International Space Station (ISS). While the people of the United States were busy observing the first Total Solar Eclipse in 99 years yesterday (August 21), NASA photographer Joel Kowsky, while looking up from Banner (Wyoming), observed something else. He soon managed to capture a silhouette of the ISS passing in front of the sun at the time of the eclipse. With six crew members on board, the ISS transits the sun at roughly five miles a second during the eclipse. NASA also cleared doubts of people asking whether the visual was of a Sunspot instead, and posted a seven frame composition of the station showing its movement.
NASA then tweeted out a composite picture of the photobombing and also uploaded a video of the same on its website.
This composite image, made from seven frames, shows the International Space Station. (Source: NASA/Joel Kowsky)
It's the moon, sunspots AND the station in front of the sun. @NASA photographer captures station transiting sun during #Eclipse2017 pic.twitter.com/hAVRINz0bv
— Intl. Space Station (@Space_Station) August 21, 2017
Image of #Eclipse2017, made from 7 frames, shows @Space_Station, as it transits the Sun near Banner, WY. Flickr: https://t.co/PQFAbVSR32 pic.twitter.com/k0Lwc3i1as
— NASA (@NASA) August 21, 2017
Watch the video here.
Twitterati, like always, were quick to respond to NASA's tweet and turn it into something more. While some related the image of the station to Tie Fighters (as seen in Star Wars Series) there were others who found other ways of adding humor to it.
Amazing pic.twitter.com/GqvtzjK0x7
— Collin O'Donnell (@fgdcat17) August 21, 2017
pic.twitter.com/PWlyMmeDNW
— MIXTER (@mixta110) August 21, 2017
Don't lie NASA, those are clearly TIE Bombers docking with the Death Star pic.twitter.com/VgPcmrhjxJ
— Jason Rainville (@rhineville) August 21, 2017
Is it just me or are there lots of #TIEfighters? #starWars. I knew the aliens were going to watch the #solarEclipse with us pic.twitter.com/exiq80NyjJ
— Janelle Purple (@janelle_purple) August 22, 2017
.@DeathStarPR, sending the TIES out?
— Matt Wade (@thatmattwade) August 21, 2017
#eclipse2017#tiefigher
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