{"id":1549,"date":"2009-05-15T08:37:58","date_gmt":"2009-05-15T14:37:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/eaf.net\/mvp\/?p=1549"},"modified":"2009-05-15T08:45:29","modified_gmt":"2009-05-15T14:45:29","slug":"what-is-man","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/2009\/what-is-man\/","title":{"rendered":"What Is Man?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href='http:\/\/www.universetoday.com\/2009\/05\/15\/amazing-images-of-shuttle-and-hubble-transiting-sun\/'>Amazing Images of Shuttle and Hubble Transiting Sun<\/a><\/p>\n<table width=75% align=center bgcolor=pink border=1 cellspacing=0 cellpadding=5>\n<tr>\n<td>No, these aren\u2019t sunspots finally appearing on our currently quiet sun. Check out these great images taken by NASA photographer Thierry Legault. The \u201cspots\u201d are actually the space shuttle Atlantis and the Hubble Space Telescope transiting across the sun! <a href=\"http:\/\/www.astrosurf.com\/legault\/atlantis_hst_transit.html\">Legault\u2019s website<\/a> says these are the only images ever taken of a transit of a shuttle and the HST in front of the Sun. Legault was in Florida at the time he took this image, about 100 km south of the Kennedy Space Center on May 13th 2009 12:17 local time, several minutes before grapple of Hubble by Atlantis.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n<p><center><a href=\"http:\/\/www.universetoday.com\/2009\/05\/15\/amazing-images-of-shuttle-and-hubble-transiting-sun\/shuttle-hubble-transit\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.universetoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/05\/shuttle-hubble-transit.jpg\" width=400 height=388 alt=\"Space Shuttle Atlantis and Hubble Space Telescope against the Sun\" title=\"Space Shuttle Atlantis and Hubble Space Telescope against the Sun\" \/><\/a><\/center><\/p>\n<p>For further perspective, consider this. The two man-made objects are roughly 375 miles away. The God-made object &#8212; 93,000,000 miles!<\/p>\n<table width=75% align=center bgcolor=\"#99ff99\" border=1 cellspacing=0 cellpadding=5>\n<tr>\n<td><i>When I consider thy heavens, the work of thy fingers, the moon and the stars, which thou hast ordained;<\/p>\n<p>What is man, that thou art mindful of him? and the son of man, that thou visitest him?<\/i><\/p>\n<p>(Psalm 8:3,4)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n<p>Oh, and here you can see <a href=\"http:\/\/www.astrosurf.com\/legault\/iss_atlantis_transit.html\">Space Shuttle Atlantis and the International Space Station against the Sun<\/a>.<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Amazing Images of Shuttle and Hubble Transiting Sun No, these aren\u2019t sunspots finally appearing on our currently quiet sun. Check out these great images taken by NASA photographer Thierry Legault. The \u201cspots\u201d are actually the space shuttle Atlantis and the Hubble Space Telescope transiting across the sun! Legault\u2019s website says these are the only images &#8230; <a title=\"What Is Man?\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/2009\/what-is-man\/\" aria-label=\"More on What Is Man?\">Read more<\/a><!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[4,463],"tags":[743],"class_list":["post-1549","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-christianity-101","category-thisandthat","tag-space"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/prJUJ-oZ","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1549","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1549"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1549\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1549"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1549"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1549"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}