Coolest Photo Taken in the History of EVER

46. I thought the sun is bright orange...ish! The fire that exudes from the sun is actually reddish orange the closer the shot. Yep, it's a knat orbiting a lemon.

Posted at 6:26PM on May 15th 2009 by Just Me

47. Amazing, wow, TMZ thanks for sharing and thanks to the other posters that added insightful and believable insight.

FOR YOU ARMCHAIR POLITICAL JABBERWALKIES, WHY DO YOU INSIST ON INFILTRATING TMZ AND BRINGING UP NON SUBJECT ISSUES? THERE ARE A HELLUVA LOT OF OTHER POLITICAL BLOGS OUT THERE FOR YOU TO GO AND BLOG ON. AFRAID YOU CAN'T KEEP UP WITH THOSE THAT BLOG ON POLITICS EVERY DAY? OR DO YOU COME HERE BECAUSE IT'S A LESS POPULATED AUDIENCE THAN AT THE POLITICAL SITES? I GO ON A REGULAR BASIS TO THE POLITICAL BLOGS, WE'D APPRECIATE IT IF YOU WOULD TOO AND KEEP YOUR COMMENT POSTS PERTINENT TO THE ARTICLE TMZ HAS POSTED ON.

Posted at 6:28PM on May 15th 2009 by Terri

48. Amazing: kind of... but you can see a better pic with both the shuttle AND hubble in flight across the sun over at Spaceweather. There is a group of us that chase satellite sun transits... we use satellite tracking and house our telescopes with modified webcams or other digital video cams. Once we capture the video we break the frames down for the single images. Calsky is great for finding out about satellite tracking... more oft than not, it is ISS that we are hoping to capture crossing the sun (as well as the moon).

Posted at 1:16AM on May 16th 2009 by JD

49. IT'S REAL!!! NASA has it on their website!!

Posted at 7:59PM on May 15th 2009 by Brewster

50. If that's real Mario Lopez is straight.

Posted at 9:09PM on May 15th 2009 by PatinNJ

51. Ha Ha Man there is some stupid people out there. I suggest all the people who think its fake to go outside and take a picture of the sun. Did you get a nice fiery orange ball like in the movies. No, 'cause you special equipment to even look at the sun, let alone take a picture, let alone take a picture of something passing in front of it. Thats why it looks like that, otherwise there would've been so much light you wouldn't see jack.

Posted at 9:24PM on May 15th 2009 by HugyPugy

52. If that's a real photo, Pelosi is telling the truth.

Posted at 10:22PM on May 15th 2009 by cuban sandwich

53. Transiting the Sun
In this tightly cropped image, the NASA space shuttle Atlantis is seen in silhouette during solar transit, Tuesday, May 12, 2009, from Florida. This image was made before Atlantis and the crew of STS-125 had grappled the Hubble Space Telescope.

The phtographer made this image using a solar-filtered Takahashi 5-inch refracting telescope and a Canon 5D Mark II digital camera.


http://www.nasa.gov/multimedia/imagegallery/image_feature_1354.html

Posted at 11:08PM on May 15th 2009 by Brewster

54. Its a great shot, too bad ITS FAKE! any physicist can tell you: 1-the object is not bright enough to be the sun, or even a large solar planet, and 2-coming from a quantum physics background, light bends through gravity waves, like the ones given off by the shuttle, which would cause the light to highly blur, or obliterate the shuttles profile, no matter what distance it is from the sun (ship or camera) it's sad that with all the real amazing shots out there, people still have to waste our time with fakes. email me wiht comments piamerriman@yahoo.com

Posted at 11:17PM on May 15th 2009 by stringmaster

55. Go to space.com to get the real details. There, they report the truth and yes, this is in fact REAL.

Posted at 11:11PM on May 15th 2009 by infamous

56. soooo not real nice try though!

Posted at 11:42PM on May 15th 2009 by jboooo

57. If it was taken by a hubble telescope, it wouldn't look like that. Errors in the picture:

1. The background should be totally black, not brownish
2. Sun is fiery orange, not pale, egg-yellow, yellow
3. Sun doesn't have a single color; it is spotted, with areas nearing to red in color, some in orange, while some a bit darker. It's because of the gasses.
4. Sun doesn't have a perfect circular shape. Like most heavenly bodies, they have this spherical with pointed-like top shape because of their rotation, revolution and gravitational pull from other heavenly bodies with bigger mass.

Oh, my blabbing is really pointless; believe what you want to believe. One look at it and I just know it's a fake. I just sorta remember my elementary and science high school class, come to think that I'm not even a star student.

Posted at 11:41PM on May 15th 2009 by Sheryl

58. OMG iz dat reel cuz if dat iz dat is sooooooooooooo coooooooooooooooooooooooolllll LOL cooooooooooooooooooooooooolllllllllllllllllllllllll

Posted at 12:32AM on May 16th 2009 by bribri

59. AWESOME if true great shot anyway. :)

Posted at 12:55AM on May 16th 2009 by pattie in cali

60. I'll tell you the equipment,settings and prepartion it took...the sillhouette of a teeny tiny bug on the in front of a yellow balloon. (lol) nice try

Posted at 1:08AM on May 16th 2009 by Isabella