Venus to Dance Across Sun in Rare June Skywatching Treat

by Denise Chow, SPACE.com Staff Writer

Date: 09 January 2012 Time: 09:52 AM ET

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Three views of Venus' solar transit in 2004, taken by NASA's sun-observing TRACE spacecraft. The top image is in visible light; the view on bottom left is in the ultraviolet, and the one on bottom right is in the extreme ultraviolet. CREDIT: NASA/LMSAL View full size image

AUSTIN, Texas — This year, skywatchers will have the chance to see an astronomical event so rare that it will not occur again for another 105 years: the shadowy passage of Venus across the face of the sun.

MORE: http://www.space.com/14173-venus-transit-sun-2012-aas219.html

ALSO--Photos & info on the only public observing event, for the 2004 Transit of Venus across the image of the Sun, in the City of Pittsburgh:

>>> http://venustransit.pghfree.net/







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