NASA SDO - The Venus Transit

The Venus transit as seen in the 171 wavelength. This channel is especially good at showing coronal loops - the arcs extending off of the Sun where plasma moves along magnetic field lines. The brightest spots seen here are locations where the magnetic field near the surface is exceptionally strong.

Credit: NASA SDO

[godbluffvdgg]

Thanks for uploading this once in many generations observation. We are lucky to live in an age where all the tools are in place so that even a poor common man, like myself, can view this splendid display of astrophysics in real time. What a wonderful time to be alive!

[Xqrement]

FANTASTIC! and it's incredible that is going to happen again in another 100 years... we should be proud of having the oportunity to watch this.

[rolypolyoly]

Today I woke up at 6 o' clock in the morning. There was clear sky during the sunrise. So went on the roof with a welding mask and watched the transit like a boss. And i'm proud I didn't miss it!

[MichaelSHartman]

Thank You so much for showing the transit in motion. I missed seeing it, and I really appreciate your viudeo.

[TrollmanMcTrolly]

Beautiful wonders of the Universe. Thanks, NASA!

[rww]

video compression masks mainly take the average value of the pixels around it to determine the value of a pixel. This results in lower file size over all but lost information, for example ridged curves, mixed colors etc. So it's not really translucent but the filter takes the average of the pixels so the area that was really true black ends up having yello/orange in it. Hope this clears it up a bit.

[anthonh]

From what I read, these are a series of high quality pictures put together...so, people who think that this comment is ignorant...you're missing his or her point.. I believe that these are individual pictures streamed together to form this video.

[RealShiningStar]

Cool! I was watching this and listening to "Smart Apes feat. Andee - The Sun". It's like the perfect soundtrack for this video :)

[lesblatt]

Wow! Take another look. Spectacular flares and swirling bright arcs just below the middle of the Sun when you watch the sped-up clip just after the first "scene" of Venus passing in front of the edge of the Sun. Changes a'plenty there!

[poyokirby]

i'm glad i got the chance to see it.

[louisuniverse]

venus passing in front of the sun, we wont be able to see this for another 100 year or so. it's majestic to watch.

[scanningallvidzs]

I shall make it my life goal to live to see another Venus transit.

[svisionguy]

My guess would be either light reflecting off Venus's atmosphere or just a pixelation effect related to photographing something somewhere between 24-26 million miles away.

[sparksfly]

Yes me too! Seeing all four contacts was amazing

[WasAbiRASP]

It was a time lapse camera. You can look at the bottom left to see what photo number you are currently viewing. Also, that what all videos are--many pictures taken very rapidly in order to create the illusion of movement. Look at any animated film or flip book if you want to learn more.

[BPDosidude]

Wanted to see it. But had to get up at 5:30am. Woke up at 8:00am. Missed it :(

[urtika]

Да, здорово! У нас это происходили с 5 до 11 часов. Посмотреть не получилось, дела были. Но зато есть видео! Явление, конечно, супер!!

[Notuploadinganything]

Is this a video or are these pictures put together?

[danieljosearaquebrito]

is a very interesting show, i wonder if from my location in the state of tachira in venezuela i will be able to see, or i could aver seen, good no matter to worry about that. really interesting to see this phenomenon.

[celestialmikka]

The sun is really pretty! :D <3 Idk but it looks really nice! :D