This photo provided by NASA taken from the ground using a telescope with a solar filter

[underpants]

This photo provided by NASA taken from the ground using a telescope with a solar filter shows the NASA space shuttle Atlantis 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.
(AP Photo/Thierry Legault, NASA)

[bridgit]

1. that's cool

[Fovea]

2. And I was feeling pretty good about

my ~500mm telephoto lens...

wow.

[Historic NY]

3. Make a great wall mural, once the shuttle is gone.

[Juche]

4. I like the shuttle

Of course I'm a technophile, so the idea of a manmade ship passing in front of the sun is pretty cool.

Here is a good sun pic w/o a ship in front of it.

[C_U_L8R]

5. That picture makes my jaw drop

awe inspiring... it amazes me that it even works.