Venus glides across the sun

In June astronomers will have the opportunity to admire the sight of Venus gliding across the sun. The same event will only happen after more than a century.

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Space said that on June 5, Venus's trajectory would take it into the sun and the earth - a phenomenon that astronomers call "transit" . Jay Pasachoff, head of Williams University's Astronomy Department in the US, said that when that happens, Venus will move across the solar disk and people will see it as a mobile black dot. That black dot would only equate to about a thousand of the solar disk area.

Pasachoff presided over a conference on Venus's solar transit on January 8 at the 219th Astronomical Society meeting.

In the history of humans, only the scene of Venus moving across the sun 6 times in the years 1639, 1761, 1769, 1874, 1882 and 2004.

People in most of the most populous areas on the planet - from America, Asia, and Europe to Africa - can observe the event that Venus passes through the sun on June 5. According to Pasachoff, it is very likely that the same phenomenon only happened in 2117.

The movement of Venus through the sun is considered a mystic phenomenon in medieval times. Ancient people have composed many poems, songs and paintings to describe that phenomenon.