Monday, June 4, 2012

Venus crosses the sun today



We don't have a good vantage point here, but I will surf for photos. 

"...as Venus leaves the evening sky to enter the morning sky, this brightest of planets will pass right in front of the sun, to stage one of the rarest of predictable astronomical phenomena: a transit of Venus across the sun’s face. This upcoming transit of Venus will be the last one for the 21st century. ... During the transit, Venus will appear in silhouette as a small, dark dot moving in front of the solar disk. This exceedingly rare astronomical event –a transit of Venus –won’t happen again until December 11, 2117."

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