The Solar Dynamics Observatory's AIA 304 camera delivered this amazing image of Venus over the active Sun during the first few hours of the Venus Transit. On June 5-6 2012, SDO is collecting images of ...

Skywatcher Roy MacLellan sent this Venus transit photo taken on June 5, 2012, from Trenton, Ontario in Canada. Skywatcher Gerry Beth Buckel sent in his photo of the June 5, 2012, transit of Venus, and ...

Venus appeared as black dot slowly crossing sun's face. June 5, 2012 — -- Look -- up in the sky. If you have clear weather and a safe way to look, the small black dot on the face of the sun is a ...

Witnessed only seven times since the time of Galileo, Venus’s solar crossing on Tuesday (June 5) is a rare and historic event that shouldn’t be missed. Unless modern science discovers a way to delay ...

Many people around the world were thrilled to see a transit of Venus in June (June 5 in the United States and June 6 in Asia, on the other side of the International Dateline), the dark silhouette of ...

The last chance most of us will ever have to see the planet Venus pass in front of the sun is coming up this Tuesday (June 5). On that day, more than half the world will get to see an exceedingly rare ...

A transit is the crossing of a planet or any star in front of the Sun. Mercury and Venus are the only planets of the solar system that can make transits, because they are closer to the Sun than the ...

Venus is the third brightest natural object in the sky after the Sun and the Moon – and today is one of your best chances all year to see Venus in broad daylight. I took this pic of the two together ...

Planet to cross sun's face Tuesday. Watch, but protect your eyes. June 1, 2012 — -- Watch with care. Tuesday afternoon, U.S. time, we earthlings will be treated to the rare spectacle of a transit ...