A transit of Venus takes place when Venus passes directly between the Sun and the Earth (or any other superior planet), becoming visible against (and...

A transit of Venus was observed from Earth on 8 June 2004. The event received significant attention, since it was the first Venus transit after the invention...

The 2012 transit of Venus, when the planet Venus appeared as a small, dark spot passing across the face of the Sun, began at 22:09 UTC on 5 June 2012...

Transit of Venus is the fourth studio album by Canadian rock band Three Days Grace. It was released on October 2, 2012 through RCA Records. The album is...

The Transit of Venus is a 1980 novel written by Australian author Shirley Hazzard. It won the 1980 National Book Critics Circle Award. Two orphaned Australian...

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4 March 1865. A transit of Venus is the appearance of Venus in front of the Sun, during inferior conjunction. Since the orbit of Venus is slightly inclined...

The first known observations and recording of a transit of Venus were made in 1639 by the English astronomers Jeremiah Horrocks and his friend and correspondent...

The 1874 transit of Venus, which took place on 9 December 1874 (01:49 to 06:26 UTC), was the first of the pair of transits of Venus that took place in...

Passage de Vénus is a series of photographs of the transit of the planet Venus across the Sun on 9 December 1874. They were purportedly taken in Japan...

Solander recorded the transit of Venus from the island of Tahiti during Cook's first voyage around the world. During a transit, Venus appears as a small...

The atmosphere of Venus is the very dense layer of gasses surrounding the planet Venus. Venus's atmosphere is composed of 96.5% carbon dioxide and 3.5%...

Board of Longitude for his work on perfecting the Tables. In 1761, Mason was assigned to travel to the island of Sumatra to observe the transit of Venus as...

The 1882 transit of Venus on 6 December 1882 (13:57 to 20:15 UTC), was the second and last transit of Venus of the 19th century, the first having taken...

Three Days Grace in 2003, One-X in 2006, Life Starts Now in 2009, Transit of Venus in 2012, Human in 2015, Outsider in 2018 and Explosions in 2022. The...

July 20, 2012. NASA Six Millennium Catalog of Venus Transits: 2000 BCE to 4000 CE Mutual Planetary Transits; Fifteen millennium catalog (archive.org)...

Venus (see transit of Mercury and transit of Venus). However, because a transit is dependent on the point of observation, the Earth itself transits the...

Transit of Venus is a play by Canadian playwright Maureen Hunter. It was first produced at the Manitoba Theatre Centre in November 1992. The play is based...

informal and formal educators. Here is a list of themes by year: "Sun-Earth Day 2004: Transit of Venus". Science Scope. 27 (5). National Science Teachers...

first of three Pacific voyages of which James Cook was the commander. The aims of this first expedition were to observe the 1769 transit of Venus across...

a transit of Venus and, to a lesser extent, a transit of Mercury. Just after second contact, and again just before third contact during the transit, a...

November 13, 2032. A typical transit lasts several hours. Mercury transits are much more frequent than transits of Venus, with about 13 or 14 per century...

concerning Units (HTML version of the IAU Style Manual) Chasing Venus, Observing the Transits of Venus Transit of Venus Portals: Astronomy Stars Spaceflight...

Transit of Venus is an opera in three acts by Victor Davies. The English libretto is by Canadian playwright Maureen Hunter based on her play of the same...

Lancashire observations of the transit of Venus of 1639. Transits of Venus: New Views of the Solar System and Galaxy, Proceedings of IAU Colloquium #196,...

observation of the phases of Venus provided the first direct observational evidence for Copernican theory. Observations of transits of Venus across the...

in an elliptical orbit; and he was the only person to predict the transit of Venus of 1639, an event which he and his friend William Crabtree were the...

The "Transit of Venus March" is a march scored for military brass band written by John Philip Sousa in 1883 to celebrate the 1882 Transit of Venus and...

during the transit of Venus in 1761 and 1769. In 1672, Giovanni Cassini found a small object close to Venus. He did not take great note of his observation...

order to observe the transit of Venus aboard James Cook's Endeavour. Born sometime in December 1734, Green was the youngest son of Joshua Green, a prosperous...