Venus Transit Movie
I recently received an email about a movie of the Venus transit that had been recorded down in Crete. The video was shot with a 6″…
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Astronomers Worldwide Wowed by Transit of Venus
Astronomers around the world looked to the sky on the night of June 5th and morning of June 6th to observe Venus as it passed across…
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What Is the Mysterious “Arc of Venus”?
When Venus transited the sun on June 5th and 6th, an armada of spacecraft and ground-based telescopes were on the lookout for something elusive and, until…
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Are You Ready for the Venus Transit in June?
Scientists and amateur astronomers around the world are preparing to observe the rare occurrence of Venus crossing the face of the Sun on 5-6 June, an…
Read the articleVenus Crosses the Pleiades This Week
This week Venus, the second planet from the sun, will pass directly in front of the Pleiades star cluster. It’s a rare sunset conjunction that’s easy…
Read the articleCould Venus Be Changing Gear?
ESA’s Venus Express spacecraft has discovered that our cloud-covered neighbour spins a little slower than previously measured. Peering through the dense atmosphere in the infrared, the…
Read the articleA Sky Show on the Night After Christmas
T’was the Night after Christmas and all through the house, not a creature was stirring … …because everyone was outside watching the planets align? It’s true.…
Read the articleReliving the 1882 Transit of Venus Which Gave Us the Astronomical Unit
Nearly 130 years ago , the premier event in astrophysics involved watching a tiny dot slowly sail across the surface of the sun. That dot was…
Read the articleVenus Holds a Warning for Earth
A mysterious high-altitude layer of sulphur dioxide discovered by ESA’s Venus Express has been explained. As well as telling us more about Venus, it could be…
Read the articleVenus Alien Atmosphere
Venus Express has completed an ‘aerodrag’ campaign that used its solar wings as sails to catch faint wisps of the planet’s atmosphere. The test used the…
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