The incredible image was snapped by photographer Rainee Colacurcio, and is featured as NASA ’s astronomy photo of the day. It's the International Space Station (ISS) caught passing in front of the Sun. (Image: Getty)“Also, sunspots occur on the Sun, whereas the ISS orbits the Earth.”While you might think that transits of the sun would be fairly unusual for the ISS, surprisingly this isn’t the case. NASA explained: “Sunspots have been rare on the sun since the dawn of the current Solar Minimum, a period of low solar activity. “For reasons not yet fully understood, the number of sunspots occurring during both the previous and current solar minima have been unusually low.”

Source: Daily Mirror July 15, 2019 09:56 UTC