Tuesday, June 5, 2012

Live venus transit

  • With a dull dome of gray clouds capping Massachusetts today, people who were hoping to have the rare experience of observing a transit of Venus will likely be thwarted.
  • (Boston Globe)
  • Tuesday's historic transit of Venus across the face of the Sun is the focus of NASA Television, available on some cable and satellite television outlets, will cover the event live beginning at 4:30 p.m. Tuesday.
  • (nola.com)
  • this slideshow showing previous transits of Venus: This Tuesday or Wednesday, depending on where you live, sky-watchers around the world will be able to see a cosmic spectacle known as a transit of Venus.
  • (Huffington Post)
  • The next one wont be for another 105 years. Viewed from Salinas, the transit began at 3:06 pm., and venus will be seen deepest into the sun at 6:26 p.m.  LIVE VIDEO: Watch NASAs live webcam tracking Venus from Hawaii The sun will set at 8:23 p.m.
  • (msnbc.com)
  • WPBT2's Star Gazers, in association with KNPB Public Broadcasting, will stream the Transit of Venus live from Reno, Nevada on Tuesday, June 5 beginning at 3:00pm (PDT) and 6:00pm (EDT).
  • (YAHOO!)
  • They were watching what appeared to be the shadow of the planet Venus pass across it which explains the history of the rare occurrence, on repeat and live-streamed NASA's transit footage for free. About 500 people attended the event.
  • (MLive.com)
  • WASHINGTON - There are viewing parties in the D.C. area set up to watch Venus cross the face of the sun Tuesday. The transit will be visible in the region at about 6 p.m. until the sun sets at 8:30 p.m.
  • (WTOP)
  • The Transit of Venus of 2012 has begun, and people across the world exclaimed an astrophysicist watching Venus cross the sun in Hawaii over a live NASA feed online. Ohh, its amazing! said another.
  • (Los Angeles Times)
  • The last Venus transit was in 2004, while the one before that was in 1882. [Watch Live! See Transit of Venus Webcasts Here] It is the rarest predictable astronomical event, wrote astronomer C.
  • (Space News)
  • Unless you think you'll live to see the year 2117, today is your last chance to witness one of astronomy's great marvels: the transit of Venus.
  • (Businessweek)

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