The image above is a photograph of a recent solar eclipse taken from the vantage point of a satellite in non-geostationary Earth orbit. The smaller object is the Moon as it passes between us and the Sun. Here on Earth, of course, the disc of the Moon appears to block the Sun, but from a different vantage point the true size difference between them is obvious.
(The weird color is an artifact of the image processing — the eclipse does not make the sun turn purple — but it makes for a cool picture).
