Hubble telescope
May 16 2009, Piyush

Thierry Legault, a French engineer, known for taking pictures of space from his back garden in Paris, captures a unique event, an extraordinary image of the Atlantis Space Shuttle and the Hubble Telescope speeding across the sun. The amateur...

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