NASA/Bill Ingalls

NASA/Bill Ingalls

NASA/Aubrey Gemignani

NASA/Aubrey Gemignani

NASA/Aubrey Gemignani

NASA/Carla Thomas

ESA/Royal Observatory Belgium

NASA/Bill Ingalls

ESA/NASA

ESA/NASA

NASA

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On Monday, Ars writers shared some thoughts with readers about the total solar eclipse that spanned the United States and took some backyard photographs of the event. But let's be honest; none of us are professional photographers, and we didn't possess the right equipment to do the celestial event justice.

Fortunately, there's a space agency for that. Two, even. And on Monday NASA and the European Space Agency deployed their resources on the ground and in space to capture the eclipse, doing so in stunning fashion. This gallery highlights everything from the International Space Station transiting the Sun during the eclipse, to astronauts on board the station itself taking pictures of the event back on Earth.

Listing image by NASA/Aubrey Gemignani