Venus passes between the Earth and sun this weekend(apnews.com)
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Venus passes between the Earth and sun this weekend
https://apnews.com/article/venus-inferior-conjunction-0b31d37604fec1721f8f60505f50b986
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I think this headline has intentionally deceived people into thinking it is a transit.
According to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transit_of_Venus the next transit is 2117.
According to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transit_of_Venus the next transit is 2117.
Venus is our closest neighbor, ~42 million km from Earth at its closest; Mars is ~56 million km.
Full title:
Venus passes between the Earth and sun this weekend — but don’t try to look for it
Any one going to try to look for it?
Venus passes between the Earth and sun this weekend — but don’t try to look for it
Any one going to try to look for it?
When I was in high school, the physics teachers set up a telescope aimed at Venus as it crossed the Sun's radius. It wasn’t visible to the naked eye, but through the telescope, you could see Venus as a tiny black dot drifting across the field of view. It was fascinating to watch a planet move in a perfectly straight line along its orbit.
A pinhole camera is probably good enough and safer. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pinhole_camera
I'd like to see this.
https://www.camras.nl/en/blog/2025/first-venus-bounce-with-t...