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06-05-2012, 06:47
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Today Venus moves in front of the Sun. One way to follow this rare event (http://venustransit.gsfc.nasa.gov/) is to actively reload the above live image of the Sun during the right time interval (http://eclipse.gsfc.nasa.gov/OH/transit12.html) and look for an unusual circular dark dot. The smaller sprawling dark areas are sunspots (http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap031027.html). The circular dot is the planet Venus (http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap080226.html). The dark dot will only appear during a few very specific hours, from about 22:10 on 2012 June 5 through 4:50 2012 June 6, Universal (http://earthsky.org/astronomy-essentials/universal-time) Time (http://tycho.usno.navy.mil/cgi-bin/timer.pl). This transit is (http://www.planetary.org/blogs/guest-blogs/Some-Details-About-Transits-of-Venus.html) the rarest type of solar eclipse known -- much more rare than an eclipse of the Sun by the Moon (http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap120528.html) or even by the planet Mercury (http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap061114.html). In fact, the next transit of Venus across the Sun will be in 2117. Anyone with a clear view (http://www.transitofvenus.org/june2012/eye-safety/281-six-ways-to-see-the-transit-of-venus) of the Sun can go outside and carefully view (http://images.dailydawdle.com/cat-peeking.jpg) the transit for themselves by projecting sunlight through a hole in a card (http://www.exploratorium.edu/eclipse/how.html#CARD) onto a wall. Because this Venus transit (http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap120603.html) is so unusual and visible from so much of the Earth, it is expected to be one of the more photographed celestial events in history. The above live image (http://sdo.gsfc.nasa.gov/assets/img/latest/latest_1024_HMIIC.jpg) on the Sun is being taken by the Earth-orbiting Solar Dynamics Observatory (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solar_Dynamics_Observatory) and can be updated about every 15 minutes.
Link (http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/astropix.html)
Today Venus moves in front of the Sun. One way to follow this rare event (http://venustransit.gsfc.nasa.gov/) is to actively reload the above live image of the Sun during the right time interval (http://eclipse.gsfc.nasa.gov/OH/transit12.html) and look for an unusual circular dark dot. The smaller sprawling dark areas are sunspots (http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap031027.html). The circular dot is the planet Venus (http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap080226.html). The dark dot will only appear during a few very specific hours, from about 22:10 on 2012 June 5 through 4:50 2012 June 6, Universal (http://earthsky.org/astronomy-essentials/universal-time) Time (http://tycho.usno.navy.mil/cgi-bin/timer.pl). This transit is (http://www.planetary.org/blogs/guest-blogs/Some-Details-About-Transits-of-Venus.html) the rarest type of solar eclipse known -- much more rare than an eclipse of the Sun by the Moon (http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap120528.html) or even by the planet Mercury (http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap061114.html). In fact, the next transit of Venus across the Sun will be in 2117. Anyone with a clear view (http://www.transitofvenus.org/june2012/eye-safety/281-six-ways-to-see-the-transit-of-venus) of the Sun can go outside and carefully view (http://images.dailydawdle.com/cat-peeking.jpg) the transit for themselves by projecting sunlight through a hole in a card (http://www.exploratorium.edu/eclipse/how.html#CARD) onto a wall. Because this Venus transit (http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap120603.html) is so unusual and visible from so much of the Earth, it is expected to be one of the more photographed celestial events in history. The above live image (http://sdo.gsfc.nasa.gov/assets/img/latest/latest_1024_HMIIC.jpg) on the Sun is being taken by the Earth-orbiting Solar Dynamics Observatory (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solar_Dynamics_Observatory) and can be updated about every 15 minutes.
Link (http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/astropix.html)