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NASA uses the Sun and Moon to photograph shockwave structures
High speed photography techniques have the ability to capture some pretty incredible stuff. We've seen "compressed ultrafast photography" used to track light before and NASA is showing off new pictures of shockwaves taken using the "schlieren technique." To capture images like the one above, scientists took a carefully timed shot from the ground as an aircraft passed the edge of the sun or moon at supersonic speeds. The resulting image is then further refined and cleared up using NASA derived code, but once that has been done, the result is equal parts fascinating/beautiful as evidence by the images provided by NASA.
