The transit of Venus on June 5, 2012, as seen from Langdon, N.D.
Flickr user KJS caught the very beginning of Venus' transit across the sun's disk from Langdon, N.D., before clouds swept in about an hour into the transit.
The transit of Venus as seen at about 6 p.m. EDT from the Mt. Wilson Observatory in Los Angeles.
A still from a NASA video of Venus' ingress over the sun's disk captures what astronomers call "first contact."
An early image of the transit of Venus from NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory.
Venus' orb at hour 4 of the transit, which lasted nearly 7 hours. Image shot from Langdon, N.D.
Venus transit as seen from Langdon, N.D., during sunset. "It made it out from the clouds to hit the horizon," KJS wrote on his Flickr site. "Officially the last shot."
Venus (upper left) approaches the sun before its transit in this stunning satellite image.
Venus begins its journey across the sun's face in this view from Svalbard, Norway.
The transit of Venus as seen at about 6:40 p.m. EDT from Mauna Kea, Hawaii.
The transit of Venus as seen at about 6:40 p.m. EDT from Mauna Kea, Hawaii.
