Shuttle in the sun…

This is a stunning photograph.   It was taken in Florida by an amateur astronomer,  Thierry Legault,  an engineer already famed for his pictures of space shot from his yard in Paris.

It also happens to be the first ever image of a solar transit of a space shuttle and Hubble Space Telescope.   It’s hard to realize that Hubble is 19 years old,  and that this probably really will be its last repair.