Even though Venus moves between the Earth and sun every 19.5 months, it becomes visible after sunset and before sunrise only ...

Though the transit is called an inferior conjunction, don't let the negative connotations fool you: There's nothing "inferior ...

Superior planets can experience a conjunction with the Sun, when the elongation goes to zero. Such a conjunction is pretty much an astronomical "non-event", since the planet is completely lost in the ...

The descriptor is simply how astronomers differentiate the event from a superior conjunction, which is when Venus and Earth are on opposite sides during the transit. While Venus passes between the ...