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Everything You Need To Know About the June 5/6 Venus Transit

Posted by Soulskill on from the please-don't-blind-yourself dept.

The Bad Astronomer writes "Next week, on June 5/6, there will be the last Venus transit across the face of the Sun until the year 2117. There are dozens of sites issuing press releases about it — online resources, watching live, viewing advice — so I've collected them into a single blog post with tons of links and my own advice on how to observe this (most likely) last-in-a-lifetime event. This complements the previous article on Slashdot from a few weeks ago."

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  1. It might not sound like much but by rossdee · · Score: 5, Funny

    A few hundred years ago the British sent a ship out to the Pacific to observe the Transit Of Venus, with Captain James Cook in charge.
    In addition to observing the rare astronomical event, he also discovered Australia

    Which didn't turn out so good for the people who had been living there for 40,000 years.