The First Photograph of the Moon (1840)
This photograph, taken in 1840, is the earliest known photograph of the moon. It was taken by the French astronomer, Louis Daguerre, who developed the first practical photographic process. The image is a daguerreotype, which is a unique image made on a silver-
Hello, World is a photograph of Earth taken by NASA astronaut Reid Wiseman aboard the Orion spacecraft during the Artemis II mission, published on April 3, 2026. The photo shows Earth as a disk, but not a complete hemisphere. It was captured during the first leg of the spacecraft's outbound journey toward the Moon. It and a preceding lower-exposure snapshot by Wiseman are the first photographs of a full Earth disk taken by a human since 1972, when The Blue Marble was taken by the Apollo 17 crew.