... 2012 June 5 . Live: Watching for Venus to Cross the Sun . Image Credit: NASA / SDO the AIA, EVE, and HMI teams . ... Image Credit: NASA / SDO the AIA, EVE, and HMI teams . Explanation: Today Venus moves in front of the Sun. ...
... Botticelli, Sandro . The Birth of Venus . Upper-Left: The West Wind . Upper-Right: The Wooded Shore . Right: Nymph . ... One of his most famous pictures represents not a Christian legend but a classical myth - the birth of Venus. ...
... 2004 June 9 . Venus Transit at Sunrise . Credit Copyright: Jimmy Westlake ( Colorado Mountain College ) . ... East, Africa, and Asia were able to witness the complete 6 hour journey of Venus' silhouetted disk across the face of the Sun ...
... 2004 April 15 . Venus and the Pleiades . Credit Copyright: David Cortner . ... Credit Copyright: David Cortner . Explanation: Venus still rules the western skies after sunset as the brilliant evening star. ...
... 2010 May 16 . Crescent Venus and Moon . Credit Copyright: IvАn иder . Explanation: There's something behind these clouds. ... They are the Earth's Moon and the planet Venus . ...
... 2012 April 6 . Venus and the Sisters . Image Credit Copyright : Fred Espenak ( Bifrost Astronomical Observatory ) . ... wandering about as far from the Sun on the sky as Venus can get, the brilliant evening star crossed paths with the Pleiades ...
... Another category captures a double coincidence such as both Venus and an airplane simultaneously silhouetted, or Venus and the International Space Station in low Earth orbit. ...