PULL · 30 JUL 2008

This was
your sky.

The International Space Station Transits the Sun

NASA APOD · Martin Wagner
COSMIC MESSAGE

The International Space Station caught passing in front of the Sun. This isn't a sunspot, which has a dark center and no solar panels. The ISS is a complex, multi-spired mechanism, one of the largest machines ever built by humanity, orbiting Earth and occasionally transiting the Sun.

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ZODIAC CONTEXT
LEO

In tropical astrology, 30 JUL 2008 falls under Leo (♌). The sign's window runs from 07-23 through 08-22. Leo is anchored by Regulus, the heart of the Lion, twenty-four parsecs from Earth. The Sun was crossing this region of the sky on 30 JUL 2008.

THE ALMANAC FOR 30 JUL 2008
DAY
Wednesday
MOON
Waning crescent, 7% lit
POSITION
Day 212 of 366