Monday, June 4, 2012

Venus transit

  • Hawaii will be one of the best spots to see the transit of Venus this Tuesday. It is a rare planetary phenomenon where those on Earth can view the planet Venus trek across the sun.
  • (msnbc.com)
  • (CBS News) - We have a chance to see something tomorrow that we will never see again. Its called a transit of Venus: Venus will pass between the Earth and the sun, appearing as a small dot moving across the solar surface.
  • (CBS News)
  • (06-04) 15:41 PDT SAN FRANCISCO-- Mondays gray, rainy skies will give way to clear weather in time for Venus to travel in front of the sun Tuesday afternoon, forecasters say. Venus will slowly slide across the sun from 3:06 p.m. until sunset.
  • (San Francisco Gate)
  • There is no question that countless numbers of people will be watching the transit of Venus on Tuesday; a very striking celestial phenomenon that has been seen only once in the last 129 years and wont happen again until December in the year 2117.
  • (YAHOO!)
  • If youre an amateur astronomer who plans on bringing out the telescope for some skywatching this Tuesday, send us pics of your rig and the transit! Well be collecting user photos from all over, and yours may be featured.
  • (Huffington Post)
  • Transits of Venus are rare events; they come in pairs, separated by more than a century, and this year's event will mark only the second time a transit has been directly observed.
  • (HULIQ.com)
  • A rare celestial event known as the transit of Venus will take place Tuesday -- and rain or shine, the Wayne State University Department of Physics and Astronomy will be ready for an evening of sky-gazing.
  • (Huffington Post)
  • Jun 04, 2012 (The York Dispatch - McClatchy-Tribune Information Services via COMTEX) -- For the founding president of the York County Astronomical Society, few things compare to the night sky.
  • (TMCnet)

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