In 1838 Frenchman Louis Daguerre took a photograph of the Boulevard du Temple in Paris which researchers have now found also captured the image of a shoeshine boy cleaning someone’s shoes.
This is now thought to have made history by being the first ever photograph taken of a human being, replacing one taken in Cincinnati in 1848 which was previously thought to have been the first.
Contrast this photograph with that taken a few days ago by NASAs EPOXI Mission Deep Impact spacecraft of the peanut-shaped comet Hartley 2 belching out jets of gases some 13 million miles from Earth. The spacecraft came within 435 miles of the comet before sending back amazing monochrome photos of it.
Deep Impact was originally supposed to photograph the comet Boethin in 2008 but it disappeared, after supposedly breaking up. So the spacecraft was redirected towards Hartley 2, capturing along the way scenes of a cluster of nearby stars with known planets circling them.
Two black and white photographs separated by 162 years and, for once, literally worlds apart!
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This is now thought to have made history by being the first ever photograph taken of a human being, replacing one taken in Cincinnati in 1848 which was previously thought to have been the first.
Contrast this photograph with that taken a few days ago by NASAs EPOXI Mission Deep Impact spacecraft of the peanut-shaped comet Hartley 2 belching out jets of gases some 13 million miles from Earth. The spacecraft came within 435 miles of the comet before sending back amazing monochrome photos of it.
Deep Impact was originally supposed to photograph the comet Boethin in 2008 but it disappeared, after supposedly breaking up. So the spacecraft was redirected towards Hartley 2, capturing along the way scenes of a cluster of nearby stars with known planets circling them.
Two black and white photographs separated by 162 years and, for once, literally worlds apart!
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