Rare Venus Transit Captured in Wildwood
One of the best shots seen on Tuesday evening's transit (passing of Venus in front of the sun) comes right from Wildwood!
Thanks to Wildwood resident and amateur astronomer, Steve Taylor, we all can get a marvelous glimpse of the transit of Venus from yesterday evening. People around the world waited eagerly for June 5 when the planet Venus crossed the face of the sun and partially blocked its light from reaching Earth. This alignment is rare, coming in pairs that apparently are eight years apart but separated by more than a century. The most recent transit of Venus was a thrilling sight in 2004. In Taylor's photographs that accompany this article, Venus is the black disk moving across the sun. Historically, this rare alignment is how humans measured the size of our solar system, according to an online source TransitOfVenus.org. The view is like a front row …
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Julie Brown Patton
11:28 pm on Wednesday, June 6, 2012
Thank you, Jo Schaper, for giving us an interactive way to witness the transit. more ›