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A black and white reproduction of Borman's image appeared in his 1988 autobiography, captioned, "One of the most famous pictures in photographic history – taken after I grabbed the camera away from Bill Anders". Borman noted that this was the image "the Postal Service used on a stamp, and few photographs have been more frequently reproduced".
First images (black-and-white and 16mm color film) of a solar eclipse with the Earth, taken by a human, when the Apollo 12 spacecraft aligned its view of the Sun with the Earth. [48] [49] December 7, 1972 Apollo 17: First fully illuminated color image of the Earth by a person (AS17-148-22725). [50]
The following is a list of stars with resolved images, that is, stars whose images have been resolved beyond a point source. Aside from the Sun , observed from Earth , stars are exceedingly small in apparent size, requiring the use of special high-resolution equipment and techniques to image.
Representative lifetimes of stars as a function of their masses The change in size with time of a Sun-like star Artist's depiction of the life cycle of a Sun-like star, starting as a main-sequence star at lower left then expanding through the subgiant and giant phases, until its outer envelope is expelled to form a planetary nebula at upper right Chart of stellar evolution
The Cartoon History of the Universe is a book series about the history of the world. It is written and illustrated by American cartoonist , professor, and mathematician Larry Gonick , who started the project in 1978. [ 1 ]
Pale Blue Dot is a photograph of Earth taken on February 14, 1990, by the Voyager 1 space probe from an unprecedented distance of approximately 6 billion kilometers (3.7 billion miles, 40.5 AU), as part of that day's Family Portrait series of images of the Solar System.
The Blue Marble is a photograph of Earth taken on December 7, 1972, by either Ron Evans or Harrison Schmitt aboard the Apollo 17 spacecraft on its way to the Moon.Viewed from around 29,400 km (18,300 mi) from Earth's surface, [1] a cropped and rotated version has become one of the most reproduced images in history.
[10] [14] In Ben Barzman's 1960 novel Out of This World (a.k.a. Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star; a.k.a. Echo X), Counter-Earth displays an alternate history where World War II never happened. [10] [14] In the 1969 film Doppelgänger (a.k.a. Journey to the Far Side of the Sun), Counter-Earth is the mirror reflection of Earth, but is otherwise ...