It ’s been an awing couple of week for amateurish astronomers . Last Sunday , one of their ilkspied the super - secret X37 - B space shuttlemaking the round , and this Sunday another has imaged the ISS crossing paths with Jupiter — during the daytime !
https://gizmodo.com/amateur-astronomers-spot-super-secret-x-37b-space-shutt-5545562
Of course , Jupiter is about 356 million miles from Earth , and the ISS is roughly 250 miles , but this still makes for an incredibly cool little image . Did I mention it was ingest at 9:00 a.m. yet ? Well , it was .
Then there ’s this next image , showing the military ’s X37 - B in electron orbit . We eff inexpert stargazer had done this already , but last weekend we miss any sort of medium . Well here it is :
It ’s a bit grainy , so the underlying graphic dish out to help decipher what ’s start on in the image . We ’re looking top - down , with the “ flyswatter ” solar panel extend and visible .
And here ’s Jupiter , Europa , Io and Ganymede during the daylight , just for rush :
dainty Book of Job , blighter . [ Universe TodayviaDiscover ]
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