Saturn and Earth Join In Photoshoot- Smile And Wave In NASA's First-Ever Interplanetary Photobomb: How To Watch

The Earth and Moon will join Saturn in a historic interplanetary photoshoot-and you can watch it live streaming.

NASA is planning the first-ever interplanetary photobomb.

Yup, really. Photos of Earth will be taken by NASA's Cassini spacecraft. It will take photos of Earth from deep space at 5:27 p.m. EDT Friday evening.

Cassini is a whopping 898 million miles away. Earth will only be a bit more than a pixel...but NASA's calling for everyone to look at the sky at that exact moment and wave.

Earth isn't the only star-or sun-- of the show. Cassini will be mostly focus on Saturn and Saturn's bling rings. It will take place as Saturn eclipses the sun.

This, NASA says, will make for some sexy backlighting on Saturn.

The Moon will also photobomb the shoot. It's a meeting of celestial proportions.

Carolyn Porco from NASA, who has been working on the shoot, called the event "a full-throated, cosmic shout-out."

This will also be only the third time a pic has been snapped of Earth from the outer solar system. 

Much in the way that it is difficult to snap photos of Lindsay Lohan from the bushes of her rehab center but easy to snap them when she is stumbling around Manhattan bars, taking photos of the Earth from far away is, well, hard.

The first photo was captured 23 years ago by NASA's Voyager 1 spacecraft from 4 billion miles away-that's still the record. Cassini also got a shot in 2006 from 926 million miles away.

This photo, though, will feature a whopping four celestial bodies. That's sort of like getting a pic of Lindsay in rehab alongside Charlie Sheen, Courtney Love, and Brooke Mueller. It'll be a rare event indeed.

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