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Kenna Hughes-Castleberry

Earth photobombs the sun in satellite image | Space photo of the day for Oct. 23, 2025

A black shadow is seen at the top right of the image with a blue halo of light in the middle where the coronagraph is.

When the U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's (NOAA) weather satellite GOES-19 turns its gaze toward the sun, scientists don't expect to see our home planet. But there it was recently — Earth, drifting briefly across the edge of the image captured by the satellite's CCOR-1 coronagraph.

The photo, shared by NOAA's Space Weather Prediction Center on X, shows our planet silhouetted by the solar corona.

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