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Transit of Venus Across the Sun 2012: Latest News
Get the latest news and tips for the rare Venus transit across the sun on June 6, 2012. The next one is in 2117!
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Don't miss the seven major planets of the solar system in the night sky this week.
The bright planets Venus and Jupiter will move closer together in the evening sky over the next couple months.
Jupiter & Venus, the two brightest planets dance each night closer until, on March 14th, 2012, they appear to pass within 3° of one another. Animation made with Starry Night software.
Here's a list of ten popular misconceptions in astronomy.
Here's a schedule of how the planet Venus' appearance will change during the coming months.
Here's a list of ten popular misconceptions in astronomy.
The space rock apparently formed out of the same stuff that became Earth, Venus and Mercury.
The planet Venus, which has been invisible during the evening to backyard observers for about a year, is coming back.
Venus has an ozone layer high in its atmosphere, according to the results of a new study.
See Saturn and Venus pass near each other in twilight on Thursday (Sept 29.)
The newly discovered comet will disintegrate late tonight (Sept. 14).
Following an unrelated coronal mass ejection, the Sun was caught pulling what is thought to be a Kruetz family comet to its fiery funeral. Venus is also in view as the bright object on the left. Captured by SOHO, September 13th and 14th.
Was it the 45th anniversary of the movie Star Trek, events in space to remember 9/11 or something else?
On August 16, the Solar and Heliospheric Observatory captured this time-lapsed imagery of a coronal mass ejection passing in front of its view of the "Morning Star". Being that the planet was more than 62 million miles away, it never posed a threat.
See photos of Venus, a cloud-covered planet with an ultra-hot surface.
The planets Venus, Jupiter, Mars are shining bright at dawn in the northeastern sky.
Venus is our closest neighbor, but we know very little about how it became the hellish planet it is today.
The hemispheric view of Venus, as revealed by more than a decade of radar investigations culminating in the 1990-1994 Magellan mission, is centered on the South Pole.
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