LONDON: American astronaut Scott Kelly, who is on a one-year mission on board the International Space Station (ISS), has become a real shutterbug. His cosmic snapshot of Earth and its neighboring worlds may be his most impressive work yet.
Social media has been buzzing since July 19th when Kelly, on his 114th day in orbit, captured the above portrait of a crescent Earth, seen in the top of the star-filled frame, along with the brighter points of light of Jupiter, Venus and our own moon aligned below.
While the highly reflective Moon, which is some 250,000 miles away, is the brightest of the stellar trio, Jupiter appears as the faintest due its enormous distance from Earth —about 370 million miles.
Skywatchers on the ground the same day got to witness the same astronomical spectacle in their western sky after local sunset.
Unfortunately, while both Jupiter and Venus have since moved too close to the sun to be visible in August, we can still spy on the high-flying laboratory, which is making very bright flyovers across large regions of North America during the overnight hours.
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