The planet Venus is re-entering the world's attention at the moment after an image published by NASA surprised people from all over the world, and this is because the American space agency managed to capture the cosmic body in a very special way. We are talking about a rare transition through which the planet Venus passes by the sun in the solar system, generating an eclipse on Earth, something that of course happened in the past, but for long periods of time.
The planet Venus went through these transits near the sun in 2004 and 2012, taking place one after the other at distances of 8 years, and then it did not happen again for over 100 years, the previous ones taking place in 1874 and 1882 The next events of this kind involving the planet Venus will take place in 2117 and 2125, so maybe only those born in the last few years, or those born from now on, will go through a similar event.
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The planet Venus is shown in the image above when it passes by the sun in a transition of this kind, and yes, it is a very small point next to the huge star that sits in the center of the solar system of which we are a part. You can also see that the planet Venus is shown with an apparent ring of fire around it, and this is because of the way we see it from here, it not being affected more than usual by the sun.
"Like a lunar solar eclipse, the phase of Venus became an increasingly thin crescent as Venus became more and more aligned with the Sun. Eventually the alignment became perfect and the phase of Venus dropped to zero. Venus' dark spot has crossed our parent star. The situation could technically be labeled a Venusian annular eclipse with an extraordinarily large ring of fire.
Pictured here during the occultation, the Sun was imaged in three colors of ultraviolet light by the Earth-orbiting Solar Dynamics Observatory, with the dark region to the right corresponding to a coronal hole. A few hours later, as Venus continued its orbit, a slight crescent phase appeared again."
The planet Venus, in its walks through the solar system, annually generates various types of coverings of the sun in relation to the Earth, but total eclipses occur extremely rarely, at least when it comes to its positioning between the Earth and the sun. Those from NASA monitor with extreme attention the way the planet Venus moves around the sun every year, and what we see now is new evidence of how everything happens.
The planet Venus is still very intensively monitored from Earth by NASA and other space agencies around the world, so we will see other evidence of its movements through the universe in the future.
