Psalm 19:1-4, "The heavens declare the glory of God; and the firmament shows His handiwork Day unto day utters speech, and night unto night reveals knowledge. There is no speech nor language where their voice is not heard. Their line has gone out through all the earth, and their words to the end of the world."
From The Blaze:
HONOLULU (The Blaze/AP) — Filtering the sun’s light to a minuscule fraction of its true power allowed sky-gazers over the world to watch a silhouetted Venus travel across Earth’s closest star, an extremely rare spectacle that served as a reminder of how tiny our planet really is.
After all, the next transit is 105 years away — likely beyond all of our lifetimes but just another dinky speck in the timeline of the universe.
(Related: Must See: This cosmic event won’t happen again until 2117)
“I’m sad to see Venus go,” electrical engineer Andrew Cooper of the W.M. Keck Observatory told viewers watching a webcast of the transit’s final moments as seen from the nearly 14,000-foot summit of Mauna Kea volcano on Hawaii’s Big Island.
From Maui to Mumbai, Mexico to Norway, much of the world watched the 6-hour, 40-minute celestial showcase through special telescopes, live streams on the Internet or with the naked eye through cheap cardboard glasses.
Here are some of the pictures of the celestial crossing:
Here are a few videos documenting the event.
Footage from the European Space Agency:
From German Centre:
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From The Blaze:
HONOLULU (The Blaze/AP) — Filtering the sun’s light to a minuscule fraction of its true power allowed sky-gazers over the world to watch a silhouetted Venus travel across Earth’s closest star, an extremely rare spectacle that served as a reminder of how tiny our planet really is.
After all, the next transit is 105 years away — likely beyond all of our lifetimes but just another dinky speck in the timeline of the universe.
(Related: Must See: This cosmic event won’t happen again until 2117)
“I’m sad to see Venus go,” electrical engineer Andrew Cooper of the W.M. Keck Observatory told viewers watching a webcast of the transit’s final moments as seen from the nearly 14,000-foot summit of Mauna Kea volcano on Hawaii’s Big Island.
From Maui to Mumbai, Mexico to Norway, much of the world watched the 6-hour, 40-minute celestial showcase through special telescopes, live streams on the Internet or with the naked eye through cheap cardboard glasses.
Here are some of the pictures of the celestial crossing:
This photo was sent to us from Blaze reader Joseph Herbst.
From Kolobrzeg, Poland. (Photo: AP//Michael Probst)
From NASA's Solar Dynamic Observatory. (Photo: AP/NASA/Solar Dynamic Observatory)
From Bangalore, India. (Photo: AP/Aijaz Rahi)
Footage from the European Space Agency:
From German Centre:
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