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Venus visiting: Last in a lifetime

Handout image courtesy of NASA shows the planet Venus at the start of its transit of the Sun, June 5, 2012. PHOTO: REUTERS

Handout image courtesy of NASA shows the planet Venus at the start of its transit of the Sun, June 5, 2012. PHOTO: REUTERS

Handout image courtesy of NASA shows the planet Venus at the start of its transit of the Sun, June 5, 2012. PHOTO: REUTERS

Handout image courtesy of NASA shows the planet Venus transiting the Sun, June 5, 2012. PHOTO: REUTERS

Handout image courtesy of NASA shows the planet Venus transiting the Sun, June 5, 2012. PHOTO: REUTERS

Handout image courtesy of NASA shows the planet Venus transiting the Sun, June 5, 2012. PHOTO: REUTERS

Venus (black spot on the right) crosses the sun's face as seen from Condorcocha, Ecuador, a few kilometers south of the Equador line, on June 5, 2012. PHOTO: AFP

Russian astronomy fans listen to the explanations of a Moscow Planetarium staff member during an early morning session to view the transit of the planet Venus over Moscow, June 6, 2012. PHOTO: REUTERS

Planet Venus is seen as a black dot as it transits across the Sun during sunrise in Sofia on June 6, 2012. PHOTO: AFP

The Martyrs' Statue is pictured as the planet Venus makes its transit across the Sun as seen from Beirut June 6, 2012. PHOTO: REUTERS

Clouds partially obscure the sun during the transit of Venus June 5, 2012 as seen from Riverside Park on the west side of Manhattan in New York. PHOTO: AFP

Venus moves to pass across the sun, in this image captured by Japan's Hinode satellite on June 6, 2012. PHOTO: REUTERS

Venus (top R) viewed as a small black dot, passes across the sun in Rome early on June 6, 2012. PHOTO: AFP

Venus (top R) viewed as a small black dot, passes across the sun in the sky of Rome early on June 6, 2012. PHOTO: AFP

Venus (top R) viewed as a small black dot, passes across the sun as seen middle clouds in the sky of Rome early on June 6, 2012. PHOTO: AFP

Planet Venus (black spot) transits in front of the Sun, as seen from the Urania observatory, in Vienna on June 6, 2012. PHOTO: AFP

Venus passes directly between sun and Earth, a transit that won't occur again until 2117.

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AWA

Jun 6, 2012 - 4:36PM

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The end of the world is near.
Catastrophic events to occur soon

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Anonymous

Jun 7, 2012 - 2:12AM

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Oh wow. AWA is a orb-gazing gypsy who can predict the future :D Tell me my mine, please. What will be my GPA when I graduate?

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Samina

Jun 7, 2012 - 9:12AM

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Allah is great , all magnificent things in universe are so beautifully designed that men on earth with all his wisdom always caught by surprise at every event. Venus looks like a small scar , what we look like a dot .. a point .. nothing …men with all his arrogance stand no where…

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Mr T

Jun 7, 2012 - 10:22AM

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@Samina:
Easy tiger

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A.Khan

Jun 7, 2012 - 12:20PM

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these are the photos I was looking for. Thank you ET for consolidation.

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Jawad

Jun 7, 2012 - 4:20PM

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I totaly agreey with Miss Saima.Recommend
husain naqi

Jun 7, 2012 - 4:38PM

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acknowledge the human beings persistence in exploring the universe.

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Mj

Jun 8, 2012 - 1:27AM

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The first photo is amazing. We often forget that sun is a star, one out of the approximately 200 billion just in the Milky Way.

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Zain Khan

Jun 10, 2012 - 4:37PM

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No wonder we are nothing when compared to this world.Wish mankind reforms itself before to late.

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