NASA image captured June 5, 2012.
On June 5-6 2012, SDO is collecting images of one of the rarest predictable solar events: the transit of Venus across the face of the sun. This event happens in pairs eight years apart that are separated from each other by 105 or 121 years. The last transit was in 2004 and the next will not happen until 2117.
Credit: NASA/SDO, AIA
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♥ Sunitinha ♥ 13 months ago | reply
awesome pic!
Nomis. 13 months ago | reply
So Spectacular
ihatefog 13 months ago | reply
I agree...you guys win! I doubt that anything will top this one. WOW!
thebadastronomer 13 months ago | reply
Yegads! AWESOME!
daknoll 13 months ago | reply
Thanks for posting!
NASA Goddard Photo and Video 13 months ago | reply
Alfredo Davies 13 months ago | reply
Increíble!!!
dillydallyshilly 13 months ago | reply
Freaking a!
huntster 13 months ago | reply
Great image! I'm intrigued by the very straight structure just to the bottom left of Venus...I wonder what that resulted from.
I've archived this on Wikimedia Commons at commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:SDO%27s_Ultra-high_Defini....
helangsenja 13 months ago | reply
Subhanallah.. The wonderfull creation of Allah..
dodagp 13 months ago | reply
Awesome !!!!!
Feel really flabbergasted !!!!!!
Fabietto76°OZ 13 months ago | reply
Wonderful!
Gabriel Roybal 13 months ago | reply
so great! once in a lifetime!
lansca 13 months ago | reply
such an amazing event and a great capture of reality. Makes me realize the magnitude of SUN
Daisy Birch 13 months ago | reply
What a pic of that sun! So dramatically beautiful!
Is there anything that exists that we love and need that is universally seen as actually ugly?
even the insides of fruits and star clusters. Perhaps we're designed that way :-)
But I really mean this as a question :-)
sure2talk 12 months ago | reply
I'm lost for words, just in awe of the amazing sun and how tiny Venus looks in comparison.
FOTOLUCE STUDIO 12 months ago | reply
We are so little...
Gabriel Roybal 12 months ago | reply
still cant get over this image!!! - gabriel roybal
Naughty Side of FCP 12 months ago | reply
Awesome photo...
SisiMissa 11 months ago | reply
Does Street-View work there ?