SDO's Ultra-high Definition View of 2012 Venus Transit - 304 Angstrom

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    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

    To read more about the 2012 Venus Transit go to: sunearthday.nasa.gov/transitofvenus

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    1. CW Estes 13 months ago | reply

      It's disgusting how much better equipment y'all have! Congrats!!!

    2. Jav-on 13 months ago | reply

      So gooooorrrgeouuuuus photoooooo!!!!

    3. 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.

    4. 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)

    5. dodagp 13 months ago | reply

      OM !!!! It's really burning !!!!!

    6. Filan 13 months ago | reply

      this is sooooo soooo great

    7. Pauls imaging 13 months ago | reply

      Such a Fantastic image! Awesome!!!

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