Those are awesome but there are a couple of even better ones at the Bad Astronomy blog today. One of which shows both Venus and a transit of the Hubble Telescope. http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/
I think? (A.k.a. ‘The King of Pain’, by the Police.)
Gregory in Seattlesays
If we are going to be linking in music videos, then we must of course include The Transit of Venus March by John Philip Sousa. The Wikipedia article says that it was written to commemorate the 1882 transit, ended up getting lost for more than a century, then was rediscovered in time for the 2004 transit.
jufulusays
For many years I had a transit photo as my screen saver. It was that photo that put into perspective how really big the sun is. The sun, …, is big. Really big. You just won’t believe how vastly hugely mindboggingly big it is. I mean you may think it’s a long way down the road to the chemist, but that’s just peanuts to the sun.
Trebuchet says
Those are awesome but there are a couple of even better ones at the Bad Astronomy blog today. One of which shows both Venus and a transit of the Hubble Telescope.
http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/
Gregory in Seattle says
“There’s a little black spot on the sun today….”
Stephen "DarkSyde" Andrew says
Ahhh! I can’t believe I didn’t think of that Gregory! The mark of a brilliant mind; it always looks obvious after its stated :)
StevoR says
Cheers for this! :-)
(Raised beer salute.)
StevoR says
@2. Gregory in Seattle :
You mean :
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K4_7fe0VZdQ
I think? (A.k.a. ‘The King of Pain’, by the Police.)
Gregory in Seattle says
If we are going to be linking in music videos, then we must of course include The Transit of Venus March by John Philip Sousa. The Wikipedia article says that it was written to commemorate the 1882 transit, ended up getting lost for more than a century, then was rediscovered in time for the 2004 transit.
jufulu says
For many years I had a transit photo as my screen saver. It was that photo that put into perspective how really big the sun is. The sun, …, is big. Really big. You just won’t believe how vastly hugely mindboggingly big it is. I mean you may think it’s a long way down the road to the chemist, but that’s just peanuts to the sun.