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English: June 30, 2015 - Venus and Jupiter come close together in a planetary conjunction; they came approximately 1/3 a degree apart. In this picture's foreground stands a Celestron Powerseeker 60AZ telescope. The conjunction had been nicknamed the "Star of Bethlehem." The picture was taken with a Pentax Optio RZ10 camera.
The 1874 transit of Venus, which took place on 9 December 1874 (01:49 to 06:26 UTC), was the first of the pair of transits of Venus that took place in the 19th century, with the second transit occurring eight years later in 1882. The previous pair of transits had taken place in 1761 and 1769, and the next pair would not take place until 2004 ...
The film's cast reflects the crew of the International Space Station. The astronauts who appeared in the movie included: Cristoforetti, Samantha: Spent more time in an uninterrupted spaceflight than any other European astronaut. Kelly, Scott: Spent roughly a year in space during a long, uninterrupted stay aboard the International Space Station.
English: Detail of Jupiter's atmosphere, as imaged by Voyager 1. Suggested for English Wikipedia:alternative text for images: This view of Jupiter's clouds with the Great Red Spot at top right as brown oval to right of wavy white and brown clouds.
Pages in category "Jupiter in film" The following 12 pages are in this category, out of 12 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. 0–9. 2001: A Space Odyssey;
The eight-pointed star a symbol used in some cultures for Venus, and sometimes combined into a star and crescent arrangement. Here the eight pointed star is the Star of Ishtar, the Babylonian Venus goddess, alongside the solar disk of her brother Shamash and the crescent moon of their father Sin on a boundary stone of Meli-Shipak II, dating to the twelfth century BC.
Appointment with Venus (1951) – British war drama film based on the evacuation of Alderney cattle from the Channel Island during World War II [34] The Basketball Fix (1951) – sport drama film based on the CCNY point shaving scandal [35] Casabianca (1951) – French war drama film telling the story of the French submarine Casabianca in World ...
Most of the sets used in Space Odyssey were constructed by WonderWorks, a Los Angeles-based setbuilding company familiar with space movies. WonderWorks had previously worked on productions such as Apollo 13 (1995), From the Earth to the Moon (1998), Space Cowboys (2000), The Core (2003) and The Day After Tomorrow (2004).