SDO's Ultra-high Definition View of 2012 Venus Transit -- Path Sequence
NASA image captured June 5-6, 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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_Benny Wenisch_, mmora01, Nomis., vor0nwe, and 477 other people added this photo to their favorites.
Rolö [deleted] (12 months ago | reply)
wow
misaac_torres (12 months ago | reply)
i like it
darell_phillips (12 months ago | reply)
Impressive.
karthick Tk (12 months ago | reply)
Superrr
Darius twin (12 months ago | reply)
wow
bjr733 (12 months ago | reply)
great! :)
d200 dug No censorship! (12 months ago | reply)
And this is why I did not even attempt to take a photo :-)
996996 (12 months ago | reply)
Venus is transparent. LoL.
Josef Kainz (12 months ago | reply)
Gut !!!!!!
Astaraline (12 months ago | reply)
Wow! Amazing !!!
I feel the tremendous energy from the sun is a very dynamic.
ZAMUS1 (12 months ago | reply)
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tiffanyfani (12 months ago | reply)
Amazing!! Thanks for the pix. :)
CatDancing (12 months ago | reply)
Awesome.
Ben Lepley +_+ (12 months ago | reply)
Venus, she is such a temptress
Maresa Engo (12 months ago | reply)
Fantastic photograph!
akash.londhe (12 months ago | reply)
How lucky we are the amaizing thing of century we have seen. THANKS N.A.S.A.
Saad Faruque (12 months ago | reply)
beautiful
manijeh1 (12 months ago | reply)
The picture is look a like a marble just you want to grab it and and keep for yourself . I think we are very lucky having people like you guys that are very generous to share ( of curse not every things ) with us our world . Thanks a million . Still In my imaginary world go to space not even pay attentions to non of you and research my own and not paying a penny .
huntster (12 months ago | reply)
Beautiful photo, and a great image to cap off an amazing day of NASA outreach and public participation. It was fantastic to see so many viewers watching the NASA streams, and to see a great crowd at the local observatory.
I've archived this image on Wikimedia Commons at commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:SDO%27s_Ultra -high_Defini....
marinela 2008 (12 months ago | reply)
Incredible capture ! Spectacular photo here !
Raquel_Kelly (12 months ago | reply)
increible many viewers watching Fantastic photograph!
WileDreamer (12 months ago | reply)
just great !!
Child of the King Photography (12 months ago | reply)
Awesome!!
Zoyx (12 months ago | reply)
Something very uncanny valley about this photo is preventing me from enjoying it.
dodagp (12 months ago | reply)
Out of this world !!!!!!!
Thank you so much NASA and all the teams up and down workings on that spectacular phenomenon for the provision of the wondrous series !!!!!!!
dmunroephoto (12 months ago | reply)
Neat.
Éothain (12 months ago | reply)
Spectacular
Jav-on (12 months ago | reply)
Wow, Beautiful!!!
Petr Charousek (12 months ago | reply)
Cool.
/\ \/\/ /\ (12 months ago | reply)
rockin
poorpoor (12 months ago | reply)
thank you robots!!
doomsdaydignan (12 months ago | reply)
Is this just dots showing the path?
Katzi! (12 months ago | reply)
Absolutely stunning imagery!
Katrin Ray (12 months ago | reply)
Amazing!
Àzìz (12 months ago | reply)
wôôw Superrr
rjccski (12 months ago | reply)
Awesome image!
RuloCIMA (12 months ago | reply)
Que más puedo decir!
StephenPate (12 months ago | reply)
OK so they have better gear :)
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Colibrí (12 months ago | reply)
Wowwwwwwww!
Fort Photo (12 months ago | reply)
Amazing stuff, glad some of my tax dollars go to NASA!
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Seen on your photo stream. (?)
loupiote (Old Skool) (12 months ago | reply)
the black dots were added with photoshop. the real path of venus in front of the sun was curved shaped, not straight like shown here. this is a poor simulated image :(
AnthonyGR (12 months ago | reply)
loupiote (Old Skool) (12 months ago | reply)
www.sunaeon.com/venustransit/
you can select your location on earth to see the apparent trajectory of venus, which changes depending on your position, but is always curve. it even looked like a loop from venezuela.
also, i saw the transit, and i can tell that venus entered at about 12-oclock (i am talking about the position on the sun disk, not the time), then it moved downwards, then curved to the right, and exited at about 4-oclock (again, i am talking about the position on the sun disk, not the time)
this trajectory that i saw is exactly the same as indicated by the simulator (for location = san francisco). and i cannot find a single location on earth where the apparent trajectory is linear.
i know that the sun rotates, but the rotation of the sun takes about 25 days, and the rotation of the sun have also absolutely no effect whatsoever on the apparent trajectory of venus over the sun.
i am not bashing NASA, i am pointing out something that all astronomers could notice. this image is a (poorely done) simulation).
Phil Benton Photography. (12 months ago | reply)
Amazing!!!!!!
rhanelt (12 months ago | reply)
Amazing.
historyox (11 months ago | reply)
令人印象深刻。
eagle1effi (11 months ago | reply)
artistic work
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Effi
Severin K (11 months ago | reply)
on Earth.
SUPERBIA2013 (11 months ago | reply)
:-))))))