Venus was at inferior conjunction on Aug. 13, in line between the Earth and the sun. Now it is swinging away from that line, speeding ahead of the Earth in its faster orbit. In fact, Venus has ...

the phase of the planet will shrink to a crescent even as Venus grows larger in the telescope view. Right now Venus lies about 69 million miles from us but that distance will shrink to about 28 ...

Many people are planning to watch the transit of Venus on Tuesday, but it's extremely important that prospective viewers be warned to take special precautions (as with a solar eclipse) to view the ...

The best way to view the Sun with a telescope is with an expensive Hydrogen alpha or a general solar filter, but these are expensive and the clock was rapidly ticking down to the transit of Venus.

(AP) HONOLULU - Filtering the sun's light to a minuscule fraction of its true power allowed sky-gazers around the world to watch a silhouetted Venus ... to view the event through telescopes ...

Venus then drops rapidly back toward the sun, vanishing from view within the first ... History magazine, Sky & Telescope and other publications. Joe is an 8-time Emmy-nominated meteorologist ...

NASA sent the Magellan spacecraft to Venus in 1990. Over the following four years, Magellan took pictures of more than 98% of the planet. This hemispheric view is color-coded to illustrate elevation.

Now, with the moon gone from the scene, it's a great opportunity to check out Venus with a small telescope. My first view of Venus through a scope came some 60 years ago. I was just a young teen ...

"Through a telescope, seeing Venus over the cratered surface of the moon reminds me of the iconic Earthrise, as seen by Apollo 8," Cook said. The next opportunity to see an occultation of Venus ...

HONOLULU -- None of us will likely see Venus pass, like a moving beauty ... at least 100 people lined up two hours early to view the event through telescopes or one of the 150 special viewing ...

[Venus Transit of 2004: 51 Amazing Photos] The 2004 transit provided scientists with the first opportunity to view such an event with modern equipment and telescopes. "Modern solar telescopes ...

A false-color view of Venus ... phosphine in that part of Venus’s air. Follow-up observations in 2019 used the Atacama Large Millimeter Array, or ALMA, a radio telescope in Chile that consists ...