Quarks to Quasars

It’s a twice in a lifetime moment: the transit of Venus across the Sun

On 6 June, an event that takes place only four times every two centuries will enthral the world’s astronomers, as it has ever since the 1600s – but now it can provide priceless data in the hunt for habitable planets in deep space

In the image:

1. The tiny black disc of Venus edges across the Sun during the last transit, in 2004. Photograph: Murdo MacLeod for the Observer

2. The 1882 transit of Venus.

3. Transit of Venus from Degania A, Israel, 2004

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