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Sunshine is a 2007 science fiction psychological thriller film directed by Danny Boyle and written by Alex Garland.Starring an ensemble cast featuring Cillian Murphy, Chris Evans, Rose Byrne, Michelle Yeoh, Cliff Curtis, Troy Garity, Hiroyuki Sanada, Benedict Wong, Chipo Chung, and Mark Strong, the film takes place in the year 2057, where a group of astronauts aboard the Icarus II are sent on ...
The Solar Orbiter, which launched in February 2020, imaged the sun's surface from less than 46 million miles away – or about halfway between the sun and Earth. All taken within about four hours ...
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.
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The American science fiction film's opening sequence shows an eclipse of the Sun by both the Earth and the Moon. The three bodies and the camera (which is farther out in space) are aligned; the sequence starts with the Sun fully eclipsed to the camera, and shows the eclipse ending and the Sun becoming visible past the Earth and Moon. [3] [4]
The Carrington Event was the most intense geomagnetic storm in recorded history, peaking on 1–2 September 1859 during solar cycle 10.It created strong auroral displays that were reported globally and caused sparking and even fires in telegraph stations. [1]
Our Mr. Sun is the first of nine films in the Bell science series. Production took place over a period of four years [4] and was initiated at the behest of N. W. Ayer & Son, who were AT&T's advertising agency at the time. [5] Working titles for the film included The Sun and Horizons Unlimited with Our Mr. Sun eventually becoming the title. [6]
First movie of Earth from space made without a human camera operator (contrast to Titov's 1961 movie) [35] April 24, 1967 [36] Surveyor 3: First images and view of a sunset and sunrise over Earth at the same time, a solar eclipse by Earth (a celestial body other than the Moon), from the Moon's surface. [37] [38] April 30, 1967