The 2012 Transit of Venus
Venus will pass in front of the solar disk on Tuesday, June 5. The next transit will not occur again until 2117, so don't miss one of the rarest of sky shows
Crossing the Sun: The Last Transit of Venus until 2117
Next week will be the last opportunity this century to see the planet Venus as a little black dot moving across the solar disk--a rare event with a long, important history in astronomy
Live Chat: The 2012 Transit of Venus, with SA Editor George Musser
Musser, who covers space for SA, will help us prepare to watch Tuesday's transit and explain the science behind this rare astronomical event
Venus Crosses the Sun for Last Time until 2117
To celebrate the last transit of Venus in the 21st century, astronomers and skywatchers came together in many sites around the world
The Transit of Venus: Viewing Tips from an Astronomer
My family is gearing up for a big weekend of science in New York City. First, there's the annual World Science Festival, which this year is bringing free activities like bug hunting, weather forecasting and marine ecology research to Brooklyn Bridge Park among many other locations...
Flying Bridges: The Day the World Discovered the Sun [Excerpt]
A French astronomer traveled to Siberia to observe the 1761 transit of Venus, assisting in a worldwide effort to determine the scale of the solar system for the first time
Where to Watch the Transit of Venus
Today offers a final opportunity for 21st century stargazers to observe a transit of Venus. For those of you who forgot to bring your telescope to work today, we've got a guide for viewing the transit both indoors and outside...
Transit of Venus App Enables Cosmic Calculations
A built-in timer allows users to calculate the length of the planet's shadow on the solar disk to reproduce an experiment done in the 19th century with less precise instruments
Venus' Transits Through History
In a matter of hours, lucky observers with clear skies will be able to watch Venus pass in front of the Sun. Transits of Venus are rare – this is the last one until 2117 – but that’s not the only reason you should find a way to watch it...
Venus was Just the Beginning: The Science of Planetary Transits
Are you sick of reading about the transit of Venus this year? Yes? Me too. But the fact is that when astrophysical objects move between us and something else, like the convenient blaze of a star, there is an extraordinary amount that can be learned...
The Man Who Knew Venus Would Transit the Sun [Excerpt]
Amateur astronomer Jeremiah Horrox was the only person in England, and possibly the entire world, convinced that a Venus solar transit would occur in 1639, an event that Johannes Kepler himself had failed to predict...
The Transit of Venus
When Venus crosses the face of the sun this June, scientists will celebrate one of the greatest stories in the history of astronomy
Sic Transit Venus
One brisk wintry day in 1639, a young man named Jeremiah Horrocks -- barely 20 -- set up a telescope in his quarters near Preston, England and focused an indirect image of the sun onto a small card...
Transit of Venus
The Venus transit offers a chance for modern-day stargazers to repeat the experiments conducted by expeditions around the world in the 18th and 19th centuries--with a modern twist
Wordless Wednesday: Transit of Venus
I couldn't sit back and NOT see something that only comes through every 105 years. So I got off of my duff, drove down to Oklahoma City to the Oklahoma Science Museum to see the Transit of VenusIt was nice crowd...
The Transit of Venus, Part 1
With a transit of Venus coming up on June 5th or 6th in different parts of the world, Mark Anderson, author of the book The Day The World Discovered the Sun, talks about the great efforts to track the transits of Venus in the 1760s and the science they would produce...
The Transit of Venus, Part 2
Mark Anderson, author of the book The Day The World Discovered the Sun, talks about the transit of Venus coming up on June 5th or 6th in different parts of the world and how it will be of use to astronomers searching for exoplanets...
