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On June 5 and 6, 2012 the planet Venus will pass in front of the Sun for the last time this century. Millions around the world will witness this rare astronomical phenomenon.
This website is entirely devoted to the transit of Venus: its history, where and when you should watch it and what you can do to get involved in the observation. Learn more...
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The March 2012 issue of Planetarian, Journal of the International Planetarium Society, features a cover story about the transit of Venus and the role of the planetarium community in this celestial event. The article opens with the historical significance of Earth-Venus-Sun alignments … Continue reading
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Today NASA’s Kepler team announced on the first day of its inaugural science conference at Ames that it confirmed the finding of the first planet comfortably orbiting in the habitable zone around its star. The planet, dubbed Kepler-22b, is about … Continue reading
Astronomers from the world over meet in Nantes, France, this week to attend the joint Division of Planetary Sciences meeting and the European Planetary Science Conference. A news item announced yesterday, and a session on educational programs that make a … Continue reading
In December 2010 the online citizen science project Planet Hunters was launched. Thousands of ordinary citizens help astronomers to analyse the light curves of nearby stars, recorded by NASA’s Kepler satellite, in order to identify possible transiting exoplanets. Small and … Continue reading
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