Watch: The first sunrise of 2023

The astronaut is said to be onboard the International Space Station that’s hovering about 400 kilometres above the Earth.

Hyderabad: Just a couple of days ago, the whole world was preparing to welcome the brand new year. And as expected, on the day before New Year a lot of lasts for 2022 were observed. Subsequently, on January 1, 2023, a lot of other first occurrences in the year were observed.

Of them all, the first sunrise of 2023 was the most pleasant. In a video shared by Japanese astronaut Koichi Wakata that is now doing the rounds on social media platforms, one can see a glimpse of how the first sunrise looked from space.

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Sharing the video, he wrote, “Happy New Year. This is the first sunrise in Japan time taken from the ISS. May this Year of the Rabbit be a fruitful year for all of you (sic).”

The astronaut is said to be onboard the International Space Station that’s hovering about 400 kilometres above the Earth.

The two-minute-thirteen-second video first shows a thin blue line along the horizon before a small white light starts to envelop the globe.

KIBO Space Broadcasting Station said that it is for the first time in human history that the beginning of the New Year and the universal sunrise have occurred at the same time.

人類史上初、新年のはじまりと #宇宙の日の出 が同時に訪れた奇跡の瞬間です！！#KIBO #Spacesunrise

👇番組全編はこちら👇https://t.co/ZwmhwgnKvH pic.twitter.com/qcApi5TQVo

— KIBO宇宙放送局 (@KIBO_SPACE) December 31, 2022