40 Photos That Are Random But Interesting

This is a perfectly normal photo of the sun, right? Just that powerful star pictured all by itself, blazing brightly at the center of our solar system and providing us with light, warmth, and happiness. Oh, what’s that? Do you think there might have been some dirt on the photographer’s lens?

In fact, ladies and gentlemen, that little black dot isn’t a smear or a smudge on the sun’s otherwise beautifully orange skin. That is a planet—a planet called Mercury. It’s the closest planet to the sun, and this is what it looks like in comparison.