The Almanac

April 2

One thing science and human progress accomplished on this date.

  1. 1845

    The Sun is photographed for the first time

    The French physicists Leon Foucault and Hippolyte Fizeau captured the first photograph of the Sun, a daguerreotype that froze the solar disk in one-sixtieth of a second and even caught a few sunspots. It was the start of solar photography, and of studying the Sun by keeping a permanent record of its face.

    Source: Astronomy

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