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HOLY SHIT

OK, deep breath: This is the Moon eclipsing the Sun; our star's massive corona is visible, faintly, around each side of the Moon. Our satellite is backlit by the Sun; there's some light falling on the Moon reflected from Earth, which is off to the left. The spacecraft structure is at left.

I'm reasonably sure the bright "star" at left, just above the spacecraft, is Venus. Also, this photo was taken with a GoPro HERO4 Black mounted to one of the Orion capsule's solar arrays. Source: www.flickr.com/photos/nasa2... Credit: NASA

I saw this and I thought, "sci-fi book cover?"