Astrophotographer Andrew McCarthy caught the precise moment when our star literally aligned with a falling skydiver, resulting in an "absolutely preposterous (but real) view" of a human silhouetted against the Sun's detailed fiery surface .

The creative first took "immense planning", McCarthy wrote on X, adding, "This might be the first photo of [its] kind in existence."

This included lining up the angle of the Sun, skydiving position, exit altitude, ground distance, and telescope distance, all at the same precise time.

After six failed attempts at alignment, the Arizona-based photographer and his collaborator, skydiver and musician Gabriel C. Brown, finally created the image they envisioned, on Sunday 8 November 2025, at 0900 local time.

Brown jumped from a small propeller-power

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