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Can You Find Venus Hiding Inside Saturn’s Rings?
If you’re looking at the picture above and now checking your screen to see if you have a dead pixel, don’t worry, you don’t. That’s just Venus hiding through Saturn’s rings. Taken by the Cassini, Earth’s twin planet looks like a blinding white speck of dust.
How To Watch Today’s Venus Transit
Unless someone discovers the fountain of youth in the next few decades, almost everyone alive right now won’t see another Venus transit after the one that’s happening today. That’s why everyone is watching it, from astronaut Don Pettit at the International Space Station’s cupola to every telescope on Earth to a navy of space vessels in orbit. And you should too.
This Proton Torpedo Is Venus On Its Current Interception Course Of The Sun
The transit of Venus over the sun is happening tomorrow, and it’s already appeared in NASA’s SOHO wider field coronagraph’s field of view. It’s the proton torpedo heading into the sun. The one getting away was fired from a cloaked Klingon ship. Or perhaps it’s Mercury.
This Video Of Venus Crossing The Sun Feels Like Something Out Of Star Wars
The transit of Venus is one of the rarest astronomical events in our solar system. It happens in pairs every century. This awe-inspiring video shows the first of this century’s pair, which happened in 2004. The next one is about to happen — on June 5, 2012.
Pilot Almost Crashes After Mistaking The Planet Venus For An Aeroplane
We’ve all felt tired to the point of being loopy, but most of the time we’re not in the cockpit of a 767, confusing a planet for another plane and sending ours into a nosedive.
Why You Might Sound Like A Smurf On Venus
Ever wondered what natural sounds you would hear on another planet? Although some spacecraft have carried microphones, sound has never been reliably recorded in an alien atmosphere. But now, thanks to simulations created by Tim Leighton from the University of Southampton, UK, and his team, you can hear what Mars and Venus would sound like.
