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...

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...

Transit of Venus occurs when the planet Venus passes between the Sun and the Earth, as it happened in: Transit of Venus, 1639 Transit of Venus, 1761 Transit...

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...

of Sciences. He made unsuccessful attempts to observe the 1761 and 1769 transits of Venus from India. Guillaume Le Gentil was born in Coutances and first...

century, with the second transit occurring eight years later in 1882. The previous pair of transits had taken place in 1761 and 1769, and the next pair...

Wikimedia Commons has media related to 1761. 1761 (MDCCLXI) was a common year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar and a common year starting...

astronomers) concerning a transit of Mercury in 1631 and transits of Venus in 1631 and 1761. The Mercury transit occurred as predicted and was observed by Johann...

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...

was a French astronomer, best known for his observations of the transits of Venus in 1761 and 1769. Little is known of Chappe's early life. He was born...

it was not found 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...

Mikhail Lomonosov and the discovery of the atmosphere of Venus during the 1761 transit. Transits of Venus: New Views of the Solar System and Galaxy, Proceedings...

evidence for the atmosphere of Venus was provided by Mikhail Lomonosov, based on his observation of the transit of Venus in 1761 in a small observatory near...

The year 1761 in science and technology involved some significant events, listed below. June 6 – The first transit of Venus since Edmond Halley suggested...

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...

to discover and appreciate the atmosphere of Venus during his observation of the transit of Venus of 1761 in a small observatory near his house in St Petersburg...

near Earth's perihelion, occur when Venus is near perihelion. An example was the transit of December 6, 1882: Venus reached perihelion Jan 9, 1883, and...

ISBN 0801409616. Sheehan, William; Westfall, John Edward (2004). The Transits of Venus. University of Michigan. pp. 43–45. ISBN 1591021758. Campion, Nicholas...

simply a symbol of divinity. Solar System portal Aspects of Venus Ashen light Transit of Venus Goines, David Lance (October 18, 1995). "Inferential Evidence...

2006. Retrieved 20 March 2007. "Similarly, we don't see a transit of Venus every time Venus is between Earth and the Sun—which happens about every 584...

of the 1761 Transit of Venus to determine the absolute distance of the Earth from the Sun. He developed a map showing where on Earth this transit would...

The Pioneer Venus project was part of the Pioneer program consisting of two spacecraft, the Pioneer Venus Orbiter and the Pioneer Venus Multiprobe, launched...

S2CID 118535095. de la Fuente Marcos, Carlos; de la Fuente Marcos, Raúl (2013). "Asteroid 2012 XE133, a transient companion to Venus". Monthly Notices...

of the atmosphere of Venus during the 1761 transit. Assessing the likely drop in light level in an exoplanet transit. Transits of Mercury can only occur...

discipline, he made a large number of observations, such as the Venus transit on 6 June 1761. The minor planet 159409 Ratte, discovered at Pises Observatory...

the transit of 1761 provided the first evidence that Venus had an atmosphere, and the 19th-century observations of parallax during Venus transits allowed...

The possibility of life on Venus is a subject of interest in astrobiology due to Venus' proximity and similarities to Earth. To date, no definitive evidence...

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...

Halley and was applied to the transits of Venus observed in 1761 and 1769, and then again in 1874 and 1882. Transits of Venus occur in pairs, but less than...