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The non-Earth imaging satellite was less than 50 miles away from the space station when it snapped the shot.

The International Space Station was caught looking a little undignified in a new photo captured by an imaging satellite in orbit. This week, Australia-based HEO Robotics released a photo of the ISS like we’ve never seen it before. The fuzzy black-and-white image was taken by one of the company’s non-Earth imaging satellites as it was a mere 43 miles away from the 356-foot-long space station. “Non-Earth imaging provides the best view of satellites in space,” HEO Robotics wrote on X.

Earlier in February, HEO Robotics captured a photo of the European Space Agency’s ERS-2 Earth observation satellite as it tumbled towards its fiery death through Earth’s atmosphere. The company’s nosy satellites also gave us our first look at SpaceX’s Starlink V2 satellite in orbit. But perhaps no other object in low Earth orbit is as famous as the ISS, which is about the size of an American football field and with a mass of nearly 1 million pounds, according to NASA.

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