One of todays headlines speaks of space shuttle Atlantis (STS-whatever) returning from the last scheduled hubble-maintenance flight, which should keep Hubble aloft for another 5 years, they recon. At nasa's images of the day website, there are a number really sweet photos covering both this most recent stellar trip, as well as highlights spanning the agencies career. i grabbed this one and pshopped it up to desktop size because its just to damn awesome, its great in its minimality and its really humbling.

The image in question was (somehow) taken of the shuttle passing across our sun, which must have been digitally enhancified or something. Very reminiscent of Sunshine, and other sci-fi movies depicting near-sun encounters.

Please enjoy!