Snapshots of the Chinese space station passing in front of the Sun

By Prof. Engr. Zamir Ahmed Awan January 17, 2026 1 min read

Wire desk byline Sourced from Xinhua, Dawn, Arab News, Anadolu and Minute Mirror. Translated and abridged by the GSRRA Desk.

(240703) -- BEIJING, July 3, 2024 (Xinhua) -- This screen image captured at Beijing Aerospace Control Center on July 3, 2024 shows Shenzhou-18 astronaut Li Cong going out for extravehicular activities. The Shenzhou-18 taikonauts on board China's orbiting space station completed their second spacewalk at 10:51 p.m. (Beijing Time) on Wednesday, according to the China Manned Space Agency. (Xinhua/Guo Zhongzheng)

A stacked composite photo taken on Jan. 16, 2026 in China’s capital Beijing shows the Chinese space station passing in front of the Sun. (Photo by Zhong Yi/Xinhua)

A stacked composite photo taken on Jan. 16, 2026 in China’s capital Beijing shows the Chinese space station passing in front of the Sun. (Xinhua/Xing Guangli)

A stacked composite photo taken on Jan. 16, 2026 in China’s capital Beijing shows the Chinese space station passing in front of the Sun. (Photo by Wang Junfeng/Xinhua)

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Prof. Engr. Zamir Ahmed Awan Founder & Chair, Global Silk Route Research Alliance

Zamir Ahmed Awan is the founder and Chair of the Global Silk Route Research Alliance, a think tank in Islamabad. He studied engineering at Shanghai University in the 1980s, and years later he went back to China as Pakistan's science counsellor in Beijing, from 2010 until 2016, working on science and higher education cooperation between the two countries.…

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