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The first sunspot drawing, John of Worcester around 1128. Sunspot drawing or sunspot sketching is the act of drawing sunspots. Sunspots are darker spots on the Sun 's photosphere. Their prediction is very important for radio communication because they are strongly associated with solar activity, which can seriously damage radio equipment.
Hisako Koyama (1916–1997) [1] was a Japanese solar observer, whose multidecade collection of detailed sunspot sketches played role in reconstructing a continuous sunspot record dating back to 1610. [2] [3] Koyama worked as a staff member of the National Museum of Nature and Science, Tokyo for more than 40 years and completed more than 10,000 ...
Joseph Nicéphore Niépce (French: [nisefɔʁ njɛps]; 7 March 1765 – 5 July 1833) [1] was a French inventor and one of the earliest pioneers of photography. [2] Niépce developed heliography, a technique he used to create the world's oldest surviving products of a photographic process. [3] In the mid-1820s, he used a primitive camera to ...
Sun (heraldry) Great Seal of Richard I of England (1198). Richard is depicted as seated between a crescent and a "Sun full radiant" [1] A representation of the sun is used as a heraldic charge. The most usual form, often called sun in splendour or in his glory, consists of a round disc with the features of a human face surrounded by twelve or ...
The Vergina Sun (also known as the Star of Vergina, Macedonian Star, or Argead Star) is a rayed solar symbol appearing in ancient Greek art from the 6th to 2nd centuries BC. The Vergina Sun appears in art variously with sixteen, twelve, or eight triangular rays. Bianchini's planisphere, produced in the 2nd century, [ 5 ] has a circlet with rays ...
The Sun is the star at the center of the Solar System. ... Drawing of a Solar Maximum Mission probe. In 1980, the Solar Maximum Mission probes were launched by NASA.
The Sun of May as seen on the national flags of Argentina and Uruguay. Inti is the ancient Inca sun god.He is revered as the national patron of the Inca state. Although most consider Inti the sun god, he is more appropriately viewed as a cluster of solar aspects, since the Inca divided his identity according to the stages of the sun. [1]
The inner Solar System is the region comprising the terrestrial planets and the asteroids. [ 88 ] Composed mainly of silicates and metals, [ 89 ] the objects of the inner Solar System are relatively close to the Sun; the radius of this entire region is less than the distance between the orbits of Jupiter and Saturn.