If you buy through a BGR link, we may earn an affiliate commission, helping support our expert product labs. If you’re staring at the sky on a clear night it’s usually pretty easy to spot the ...

while Venus appears as a much larger black disk slightly below the venerable telescope. A smattering of dark sunspots is also visible in the image. [Skywatcher Photos of the 2012 Venus Transit ...

Astronomer Gianluca Masi of the Virtual Telescope Project caught the pair from his observatory in Manciano, Italy as Venus ...

This is because although professionals are equipped with state-of-the-art telescopes ... the Venus ground-based Active Archive (VAA), is now available for you to upload your pictures.

The atmosphere itself is… not so fine. It's mostly carbon dioxide, which hey, it's what plants crave, but also a lot of ...

Modern studies of Venus have pictured it as hot and waterless ... level where the balloon-telescope took its pictures is above nearly all of the earth’s vapor. Thus the spectral absorption ...

The phases of Venus, the Aurora Australis and the International Space Station transiting the Sun all feature as category winners in the Astronomy Photographer of the Year competition. Ryan Imperio ...

a thin crescent moon beside a pale yellow orb Astronomer Gianluca Masi of the Virtual Telescope Project caught the pair from his observatory in Manciano, Italy as Venus shone just above the moon.

The moon and Venus put on quite a show for skywatchers around the world this week. On Jan. 3, 2025, the "Evening Star" Venus and a waxing crescent moon crossed the night sky in an event known as a ...