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Animated version of a test plate for Passage de Vénus. Passage de Vénus is a series of photographs of the transit of the planet Venus across the Sun on 9 December 1874. [1] They were purportedly taken in Japan by the French astronomer Jules Janssen and Brazilian engineer Francisco Antônio de Almeida using Janssen's 'photographic revolver ...
Venus (and also Mercury) is not visible from Earth when it is full, since at that time it is at superior conjunction, rising and setting concomitantly with the Sun and hence lost in the Sun's glare. Venus is brightest when approximately 25% of its disk is illuminated; this typically occurs 37 days both before (in the evening sky) and after (in ...
A NASA spacecraft has captured never-before-seen images of Venus, providing stunning views of the hellishly hot surface of the second rock from the sun. Dark side of Venus revealed in new NASA ...
Sun · Mercury · Venus · Earth · 524522 Zoozve Zoozve was discovered on 11 November 2002 by Brian A. Skiff at Lowell Observatory . [ 7 ] [ 8 ] As of February 2013, it has been observed telescopically 457 times with a data-arc span of 2,947 days, and it was the target of Doppler observations on five occasions; therefore, its orbit is very ...
A Facebook post claims Mercury, Venus and Saturn aligned with the pyramids in Giza, Egypt. That purported phenomenon is made up. Fact check: Image falsely shows Mercury, Venus and Saturn aligned ...
On August 6, 1945, the US dropped an atomic bomb on Hiroshima -- and newly revealed photos shed light on the preparations for the attack.
Cover of Nelson's pamphlet of 1956. Buck Nelson (April 9, 1895 – 1982) was an American farmer who gained some notoriety as a 1950s UFO contactee.Nelson claims to have had an encounter with an unidentified flying object and its human crew while living in Missouri in 1954.
Venus and the Sun is a 2011 short film based on myths from Ovid's Metamorphoses directed by Adam Randall and starring Keeley Hazell, Will Smith, and Ukweili Roach. It was written by Reuben Grove and produced by Andy Brunskill. The film premieres in London on 10 March 2011 at the Rich Mix Cinema, Shoreditch