How is the next transit of Venus not until 2117? That blows my socks’ mind. Seems like that should be happening very regularly.
this post was submitted on 27 Feb 2025
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Same reasons for any eclipses :
.1- plane of orbits (the one for Venus and the one for the Earth) do not exactly coincide and
.2- because distances between objects are much larger than objects, including size of the sun.
I believe you. Still seems wild that I will never see another one in my lifetime.
It's probably more about how often it's visible in your part of the world than it happening at all if I had to guess.
My socks were appropriately blown off but I still didn't get invited.
I bet it's hot there.
The side of Mercury we're seeing in the pic is quite cold
My favorite fun astronomy fact is that a transit like this (Venus, but still) is how we managed to figure out our distance to the Sun in the 1700s
I mean it would but I’ve known the scale of the universe since i still threw myself birthday parties…lol
So conditioned that NDT is talking bullshit and people dunking on him that I had to read it a couple of times to understand it.
Imagine what the sun would look like standing on Mercury.
The morning of my birthday party I hung out with my physics teacher (it was a Holiday from high school) who's also an astronomer and we watched mercy transit the sun.