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Passage de Vénus is a series of photographs of the transit of the planet Venus across the Sun on 9 December 1874. [1] They were purportedly taken in Japan by the French astronomer Jules Janssen and Brazilian engineer Francisco Antônio de Almeida using Janssen's 'photographic revolver'. [2] [3] [4] It is the oldest "film" listed on IMDb and ...
The episode also examines the planet Venus to inspect the runaway greenhouse effect. [2] The episode's title alludes to H. G. Wells ' novel published in 1914, The World Set Free , where Wells predicts that humanity will develop destructive nuclear weapons , perpetuating a devastating global war and forcing the world to come to its senses to ...
Cosmic Odyssey is a 2002 Canadian documentary television series about the cosmos, created by Avanti Pictures, narrated by William Shatner, and produced by Soapbox Entertainment for The Discovery Channel. In 2003, Schlessinger Media released the series in VHS video format. [1] [2] As of 2007, the series is syndicated on The Science Channel. "...
A NASA spacecraft has captured never-before-seen images of Venus, providing stunning views of the hellishly hot surface of the second rock from the sun. Dark side of Venus revealed in new NASA ...
The observers were ordered to record the transit in four phases of Venus' journey across of the sun. The first phase was when Venus began "touching" the outside rim of the sun. In the second phase, Venus was completely within the sun's disc, but was still "touching" the outer rim. In the third phase, Venus has crossed the sun, was still ...
During the probe's third Venus flyby in July 2020, its camera – the Wide-Field Imager for Parker Solar Probe, or WISPR – captured images of Venus' scorching-hot surface through the thick cloud ...
This week, unlock the moon’s true age with Apollo 17 samples, uncover dinosaur footprints on a beach, discover a hidden ancient Antarctic landscape, and more.
The Venus Transit Across the Sun; observations from Hartwick College in Oneonta, NY, USA; Several videos of the transit as seen by the TRACE satellite; Archive of observations in Bangalore; Predictions for the 2004 Transit of Venus; The Transit of Venus: Where to See It; Photos taken by BBC News readers