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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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When you are in a different part of the world, in the middle of nowhere, how do you get the time accurate to the second? This is a problem all of the eighteenth and many of the nineteenth century astronomers … Continue reading
For ages, timekeeping has been linked to the rotation of the earth. Because the earth’s rotation isn’t uniform, time needs to be adjusted constantly. Even today, civil time, which is derived from uniformly running atomic clocks, is adjusted now and … Continue reading
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