The Sun: SPECTACULAR VIDEO with the International Space Station

The sun appears today in a spectacular video clip in which we can see the International Space Station as we have never seen it before.

Sun. it is presented in the video clip above in a spectacular pose that shows us something that we very rarely have the opportunity to see because it is not so easy to capture in images. More precisely, in the video clip above you can see the International Space Station as it "walks" across the face of the sun, as part of its normal orbit around the Earth, and during which it interposes itself between the planet and the star that he warms it daily.

Sun. it heats up the International Space Station quite often, and this is because it moves at a speed of 8 km/h in the Earth's atmosphere, completing one orbit every 90 minutes. According to the astronauts who are there, every day they see the sun rise and set no less than 16 times, and these spectacular images also show us how fast they move while orbiting the Earth each day of activity.

The Sun: SPECTACULAR VIDEO with the International Space Station

The Sun International Space Station
PHOTO: RAINEE COLACURCIO

Sun. it is huge compared to the International Space Station, it being at an altitude of 400 kilometers, and everything you see above is only 6 captured frames, due to the very high speed of travel. The biggest problem in capturing images of this kind is based on the fact that the weather is rarely good enough to be able to see the sun without clouds, and implicitly capture the International Space Station as well.

Sun. it is constantly monitored from Earth, and the astronauts on the station are constantly irradiated by it, but it is interesting to see how it appears in front of a huge star. We are talking about a star that would swallow the International Space Station in a few seconds, the sun being huge and dangerous compared to it, but this is part of the normal "flow" of things in the universe, and this reminds us how small we really are in the vast darkness.

Sun. in the course of the next days, it will have new monitoring done by a ship that was sent closer to it by NASA, and we will see new interesting images.