NASA and SpaceX film terrifying footage of eclipse from space

From the blackness of space comes… more blackness. The eternal cosmic horror that is the great expanding nothing of the universe invaded Earth yesterday, with the Moon blocking out the Sun out of spite, coincidence, or for God’s amusement. In other words, there was a total eclipse, and it was pretty neat. While Earthlings all over the western hemisphere looked at the Sun (hopefully not directly), pointed at it and went ‘wow, look where it isn’t anymore,’ the heavenly creations of man had a very different vantage point for the celestial dance. Both the International Space Station and one of Elon Musk’s Starlink satellites got to watch the Sun turn as black as sackcloth from the wrong way round, and if you thought it was scary from below, you ain’t seen nothing yet, human.