An astronaut has taken a picture of what looks like a space angel. European Space Agency astronaut Samantha Cristoforetti snapped the Russian Soyuz launch last Wednesday.
However, from her vantage point on the International Space Station (ISS), the trails left by the crewed flight sparked the imagination of some observers. Amanda Kooser, tech expert for CNET website, compared it to an "angelic figure, wings spread, ascending toward orbit."
While the IFLScience blog described it as a “great swooping space angel”. Another online commentator posted: "Wow' almost looks like a scene from a 1960s space movie. Doesn't look real. Beautiful, but unreal looking."
