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Rare, effortless: This is how it looked when Venus came face to face with Sun - India Today
Jun 28, 2022 57 secs
The rare celestial event that happened a decade ago will not happen for another 10 years and astronomers across the world are reminiscing about the event when they saw the planet appear as a black dot crossing with the Sun as its backdrop.

The Solar Dynamic Observatory (SDO) had captured the rare celestial event and Nasa has released an image of the time when Venus appeared as a black dot in front of the massive sun.

"She was one of the rare ones, so effortlessly herself, and the world loved her for it," Nasa said in an Instagram update releasing the outworldly image of the planet's solar transit.

A transit is when one object crosses in front of another in space and solar transits are a planet's passage across the Sun's face, as seen from Earth's perspective, where the only observable transits are that of Mercury and Venus.

Nasa has said that Venus' solar transits happen in pairs just over 100 years apart.

Transits help astronomers study the atmospheric composition and orbit of planets," Nasa said in a statement.

Rare, effortless: This is how it looked when Venus came face to face with Sun

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