NASA astronaut Chris Williams captured an orbital sunrise image on June 26, 2026, with the photo credited jointly to Williams and NASA.

Williams was aboard the International Space Station when he took the photograph. The station circles Earth at a pace of 16 complete orbits every 24 hours, NASA said. Because of that orbital cadence, crew members aboard the station pass through 16 sunrises and 16 sunsets within a single day, according to NASA.

The image was released under a NASA and Chris Williams credit. The station's rapid orbit means that what ground-based observers experience once each day, crew members experience 16 times, NASA noted. Williams photographed one of those brief moments of orbital sunrise on June 26, 2026, producing an image that NASA has since attributed to both the agency and the astronaut.