
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.