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A stunning, otherworldly photograph is leaving people across the internet in awe. Called \u201cThe Fall of Icarus,\u201d the viral image captures a skydiver seemingly plunging across the Sun\u2019s blazing surface. The shot was taken by US-based photographer Andrew McCarthy in an Arizona desert on November 8, as musician and skydiver Gabriel Brown leapt from a small propeller aircraft at about 3,500 feet, roughly 8,000 feet away from McCarthy\u2019s camera.<\/p>\n

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