claim: A photograph captures a solar eclipse as seen from space.
origin: An image was commonly circulated online in mid-2012 that was billed as a photograph taken from space (via the International Space Station) of a 20 May 2012 solar eclipse visible from North America: < I refuse to believe this image of the eclipse is real, as much as I wish it were. Not that it couldnâ€™t be real. It can. Iâ€™ve seen plenty of photos of eclipses taken from space, but this one is just too awesome to be real. > The image was not a photograph of that celestial event, however â€” or a photograph at all. It was purely a work of Digital/3-Dimensional Art that was posted to the DeviantART web site back in 2009.