An Eclipse of a Different Kind

Did you see the eclipse last night? Pictures are rolling in on Twitter and Facebook, and they're lovely. But the night before, on Oct. 7, astrophotographer Steve Knight caught a different kind of eclipse: The International Space Station passing in front of the Moon. He even got video of it: Cool! He slowed the video down by a factor of 10; the event only lasted 1.3 seconds. To be fair, this is technically called a "transit," when something smaller passes in front of something bigger, and not an ...