Islands in the Sun

Lookee here at the ISS and the Space Shuttle transiting in front of the sun - picture taken from earth based telescope. Of course, these two objects are in Earth orbit and not close to the sun at all, but as always - PERSPECTIVE!

Here's a magnification from a slightly different angle:

Pretty neato!

And for your moment of zen today, stop for a moment and consider that there's 3 people right now, floating above the Earth, orbiting the planet every 90 minutes or so. They live up there! Like some type of Gods.....