by / on June 6, 2012 at 10:29 am / in National, News, Top Stories

Silhouetted Venus reminder of solar system’s size

HONOLULU (AP) — Filtering the sun’s light to a minuscule fraction of its true power allowed sky-gazers around 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.

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