An amazing photo shows a person seemingly skydiving through a vast backdrop of the Sun.

But instead of deploying generative AI or other editing trickery, the photographer behind the once-in-a-lifetime shot has the receipts to prove it’s very much real.

Arizona-based amateur astronomer Andrew McCarthy shared the now-viral image on Reddit, calling it the “most preposterously fake-looking real photo I’ve ever captured.”

The gorgeous image, fittingly titled “The Fall of Icarus” — and which you can buy as a print to support McCarthy right here — shows “my friend transiting an active region on the Sun in freefall,” he wrote in the caption.

In a behind-the-scenes video posted to his Instagram, McCarthy explained how he pulled it off.

He “set up a bunch of telescopes in the desert” and instru

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