On this day in space, April 2nd, 1845, French physicists Hippolyte Fizeau and Léon Foucault took the very first picture of the Sun using a daguerreotype, an early form of photography.
Even grainy, you can still see the sunspots 🤩
📸 Fizeau & Foucault
ALT The first photograph of the Sun, a daguerreotype captured on April 2, 1845. The grainy black-and-white image shows a bright solar disk against a black background with dark sunspots visible on the lower half. Text overlay reads First Sun Photo, April 2, 1845.