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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kluehirschSnowpine--going west again!, and 110 other people added this photo to their favorites.
CW Estes 13 months ago | reply
It's disgusting how much better equipment y'all have! Congrats!!!
Jav-on 13 months ago | reply
So gooooorrrgeouuuuus photoooooo!!!!
iloverealestate 13 months ago | reply
Awesome!!!
thisisbossi 13 months ago | reply
If photos like this can be turned into a video: you would be amazingly awesome wonderful people. Well OK you all might be, anyway, but that'd just confirm it.
DanBaudelaire 13 months ago | reply
Beautiful *-*
huntster 13 months ago | reply
Thanks! Image archived on Wikimedia Commons at commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:SDO%27s_Ultra-high_Defini....
dillydallyshilly 13 months ago | reply
WOW! I thought some of the shots in the EUV spectrum were awesome! THIS really captures the fierce intensity of our Sun. It's hard to believe that there's a star out there approx: 500,000x the size of our Sun!
(VY Canis Majorus)
dodagp 13 months ago | reply
OM !!!! It's really burning !!!!!
DarkManUnknown 13 months ago | reply
beautiful!
Filan 13 months ago | reply
this is sooooo soooo great
Pauls imaging 13 months ago | reply
Such a Fantastic image! Awesome!!!
tormentor4555 13 months ago | reply
Awesome
Le.Sanchez 8 months ago | reply
wow