The music from this scene fits it WAY better.

Awesome

Love the giant whorl of fire.

AverageAmericanGuy: Love the giant whorl of fire.

Hey! You don't talk about my mother like that!

Ultra High Def footage!!!!
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compressed into a youtube clip...

:(

I recently came across a video on a popular video site in which the producer is quite certain that the Earth is stationary and the sun orbits around us. I think that is pretty funny.

cameroncrazy1984: AverageAmericanGuy: Love the giant whorl of fire.

Hey! You don't talk about my mother like that!

I ain't never seen an equatorial bulge quite that pronounced before.

mamoru: wildsnowllama: Ultra High Def footage!!!!
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compressed into a youtube clip...

:(

You can get the full 1280x720 versions straight from NASA here:

http://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/vis/a010000/a010900/a010996/index.html (^)

They also have a bunch of hi-res stills you can download.

MmmmmmmThank-You-Very-Much!

gold sun is tantalizingly cool but cautionary... red sun scares me and makes me wet myself

I love you dorks.

/takes one to know one

I saw it with my own eyes, but watching the video got me wondering how big Venus is compared to the Earth...

I feel really insignificant now, thanks Subby...

almandot: gold sun is tantalizingly cool but cautionary... red sun scares me and makes me wet myself

Glad to see I'm not the only one - I find the sun more than a bit farking terrifying

FishyFred: The music from this scene fits it WAY better.

The music in this article reminded me of that song from Requiem for a Dream. I kept waiting for it to go into that recognizable DAH duh... DAH duh DAH duh... DAH duh DAH duh.... DAH duh DAH duh DAH duh DAH duh DAH duh hook.

You all know what I'm talking about :)

X15: I saw it with my own eyes, but watching the video got me wondering how big Venus is compared to the Earth...

I feel really insignificant now, thanks Subby...

Don't worry - Venus is much smaller than earth.

Venus has a diameter that is about 95% of Earth's. It is 12,100 km across. The Venusian surface area is around 90% of our own at 4.6×108 km2. The planet has a volume of 9.38×1011 km3. That puts it a little over 85% of Earth's volume. One final way to measure the size of Venus is to consider its mass. It has a mass of 4.868 x 1024 kg., just over 81% of Earth's. These physical characteristics have led many scientists to call Venus the sister planet of Earth.

So it's a big ball of fire with a little dot going across it.

Yawn.

Wake me when something blows up.

Daraymann: So it's a big ball of fire with a little dot going across it.

Yawn.

Wake me when something blows up.

You must be one of the congressmen that DIDN'T go to Neil DeGrasse Tyson's hearing.

Wow, incredible to see in fast forward.

/now I want to see it in retrograde.
// on the cusp
/// etching a pentagram across the sun

Three remarks:

1) so cool... if we were on Mars, this what the earth would look like in its transit across the sun. We're just on a big round ball flying through space...

2) subby the plural of spectrum is spectra, not spectrums.

3) that is all.

That was really magnificent subby, so thank you.

I do think your choice of music odd, I kept waiting for Pazuzu to make his entrance.

Daraymann: So it's a big ball of fire with a little dot going across it.

Yawn.

Wake me when something blows up.

Yeah, that'd be the sun. A nuke that's been going off for four billion years.

Amazing. Thanks! And thanks for the uncompressed links. Beautiful.

X15: I saw it with my own eyes, but watching the video got me wondering how big Venus is compared to the Earth...

I feel really insignificant now, thanks Subby...

You must know it's never a good idea to start discussing Venus size.

As the video shows, it's the motion that's important.

You know what? I love science and space exploration in particular, but even for me, that music and video were a little over the top. Just because something is rare doesn't make it fantastic.

Can anyone explain why Venus is translucent at various points? You can see the Sun through the planet as it crosses the Sun's horizon.

Flubb: Can anyone explain why Venus is translucent at various points? You can see the Sun through the planet as it crosses the Sun's horizon.

Happens sometimes of you use a low quality Maia rendering setting.

AverageAmericanGuy: Flubb: Can anyone explain why Venus is translucent at various points? You can see the Sun through the planet as it crosses the Sun's horizon.

Happens sometimes of you use a low quality Maia rendering setting.

Maya... Damn these fat fingers!

This video makes me ask a few questions.

If we see a transit of Venus every 120 years or so, how many years does it take to see a transit of Mercury and Venus at the same time? Does that ever happen?

To a viewer from Mars, is there ever a transit of both Venus and Earth at the same time? How often would that happen?

And the next time Venus transits the sun, will there be someone, drinking coffee, watching it a few days later on an internet of sorts, with goosebumps and watery eyes?

Venus is really dark. Do not want.

August11: This video makes me ask a few questions.

If we see a transit of Venus every 120 years or so, how many years does it take to see a transit of Mercury and Venus at the same time? Does that ever happen?

Every 50 years + -.

To a viewer from Mars, is there ever a transit of both Venus and Earth at the same time? How often would that happen?

Yes. Much more rare. Every 500 years give or take.

And the next time Venus transits the sun, will there be someone, drinking coffee, watching it a few days later on an internet of sorts, with goosebumps and watery eyes?

You frighten me.

I realize that the footage is sped up, but can anyone tell me how much it's sped up by? How long does the actual transit take, as in the actual time it is in front of the sun?

The sound of one hand clapping: I realize that the footage is sped up, but can anyone tell me how much it's sped up by? How long does the actual transit take, as in the actual time it is in front of the sun?

7 minutes.

mamoru: Tommy Moo: The music in this article reminded me of that song from Requiem for a Dream

You mean it wasn't just a remix or re-orchestration of that track? Because that's what I thought it was, too.

If it was, they cut out the most dramatic part. They should have timed it so the video climaxed with that in the last 30 seconds.

One question, why is the spot so high up on the sun? Shouldnt it have been closer to the middle of the orbital plane?

Everyone knows that when you photograph against the sun, you need to use a secondary source of light such as a flash, or you end up with a dark subject.

Upgrade your equipment, NASA.

Warmachine999: One question, why is the spot so high up on the sun? Shouldnt it have been closer to the middle of the orbital plane?

The Earth and Venus are not quite in the same plane.



I managed to see the transit using a stack of every pair of sunglasses I could find. 5-6 cheap sunglass lenses did the trick.

Subby, the word you were looking for was "band-passes."

Lor M. Ipsum: August11: This video makes me ask a few questions.

If we see a transit of Venus every 120 years or so...

According to the video caption, the previous transit was 7 years ago, and the next one will be in 105 years. It doesn't appear to be every x number of years

They happen roughly twice every 120 years, and they happen in pairs. So, you wait 100 years, you see a transit, you wait ten years, you see another transit, then you have to wait another 100 years for the next one.

August11: how many years does it take to see a transit of Mercury and Venus at the same time? Does that ever happen?

The last time it happened was September 22nd, 373,173 B.C.

It will happen again in 224,508. Don't wait up for it.

Whoops, excuse me...I skipped one.

The next time venus and mercury transit the sun at the same time will be in July of 69,163. Maybe you could make that one.

Daraymann: So it's a big ball of fire with a little dot going across it.

Yawn.

Wake me when something blows up.

bulldg4life: Whoops, excuse me...I skipped one.

The next time venus and mercury transit the sun at the same time will be in July of 69,163. Maybe you could make that one.

Why bother - it's bound to be cloudy.

mamoru: wildsnowllama: Ultra High Def footage!!!!
...
compressed into a youtube clip...

:(

You can get the full 1280x720 versions straight from NASA here:

http://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/vis/a010000/a010900/a010996/index.html (^)

They also have a bunch of hi-res stills you can download.

Nothin' like some space porn in the morning to give me a stiffy.

LockeOak

I managed to see the transit using a stack of every pair of sunglasses I could find. 5-6 cheap sunglass lenses did the trick.

Sun glasses (even welding glasses) do not work that way. Congrats you just damaged your eyes.

SUNGLASSES DO NOT WORK, EVEN IF YOU STACK MANY OF THEM TOGETHER.