This chart shows the times of "contact" between Venus and the sun during the transit of Venus for major cities on June 5, 2012. This example of the tool at transitofvenus.nl, is set for observing ...

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 ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. An award-winning reporter writing about stargazing and the night sky. The transit of Venus on June 5, 2012 from Mauna Kea volcano, ...

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 ...

New movies of the transit of Venus on 6 June 2012, viewed from two different locations on Earth, clearly show the parallax effects that have made Venus transits so important historically. The results ...

On June 5, 2012, at 6:03 p.m. EDT, the planet Venus will do something it has done only seven times since the invention of the telescope: cross in front of the Sun. This transit is among the rarest of ...

Did you miss the transit of Venus in front of the sun yesterday? Were there clouds in your skies? Stuck in Antarctica? If you didn’t catch this last alignment of our cloud-shrouded planetary neighbor ...

The planet Venus will create a rare spectacle on Tuesday when it passes directly in front of our sun, creating an image for viewers on Earth that won’t be repeated until the year 2117. Known as “the ...

Astronomers around the world looked to the sky last night and this morning to observe Venus as it passed across the face of the Sun for the last time this century. The European Space Agency’s (ESA) ...

This event, called a transit of Venus, is one of the rarest sights in astronomy. Transits of Venus occur in pairs 8 years apart, each pair separated from the next by over a century. The last pair ...