A NASA Astronomy Picture of the Day published on September 22, 2026, described a photograph from June taken in Prasek in the Czech Republic that captured the Sun with silhouettes of the International Space Station and an airplane. The image was credited to Petr Horalek of the Institute of Physics in Opava.

According to the accompanying explanation, the picture was planned with sub-second timing to record the space station passing in front of the Sun. During that exposure, an airplane also crossed the solar disk. The text says the small dark regions caused by concentrated magnetic fields on the Sun's bright disk are sunspots, which typically last for weeks and were expected because they had been seen previously.

The photographer estimated the chance that any random image of the Sun from that location would contain silhouettes of both a space station and an airplane at about 30 million to one, the post said. NASA also noted that its main APOD site was moving from apod.nasa.gov to science.nasa.gov/apod.