Mercury, Venus, and the Dance of the Planets || Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics

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Owen Gingerich, CfA

For all of us, it's now or never to see Venus silhouetted against the face of the sun. On June 6 the goddess will transit the sun, a phenomenon not to be repeated until 11 December 2117.

May 17, 2012

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