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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HJKr 13 months ago | reply
wonderful sight
Andrea Baeza Armijo 13 months ago | reply
omg
*NEWMAN* 13 months ago | reply
There will be more photos? as the event is happening?.
benft 13 months ago | reply
really splendid!!!
Children of the Concrete 13 months ago | reply
Brilliant!
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a_codepoet 13 months ago | reply
Wow! Spectacular
Luchocartucho 13 months ago | reply
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kabalyero23 13 months ago | reply
spell MASSIVE! I like!
Mr Ken World 13 months ago | reply
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What a wonderful sight. The Human race is taking a long time coming of age. Many are still acting like barbaric idiots causing unnecessary Genocides'. Science now informs us that our planet will die from sunshine and we only have a few billion years left, also we are now learning that there may be other planets out there that could sustain life but it would take us millions of years to get there, by which time they to may become consumed by a red dwarf. So earthlings, the best belief system is to be happy, stay positive and enjoy our progress in the art of understanding.
AnnieSee 13 months ago | reply
Sunsational!!
DanielaGarc' 13 months ago | reply
Marvelous!
huntster 13 months ago | reply
Beautiful image! I like how the filaments seem to be reaching toward Venus. I'm archiving these transit photographs on Wikimedia Commons as they become available here, and this one is at commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:NASA%27s_SDO_observes_Ven....
james lj 13 months ago | reply
Spectacular!
tinntang 13 months ago | reply
Dude thats like totally cool. Wow.
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rahmohit94 13 months ago | reply
awsm...photography...!!!!
dodagp 13 months ago | reply
A real spectacle !!!!!!!
Petr Charousek 13 months ago | reply
Just Wow!
Harvey408 13 months ago | reply
superb!