Venus Transit, 2012

Beautiful in all iterations:

I'm no astrophysicist, so I have no idea what they can learn about the transit, but it sure is beautiful, and that I can appreciate at the most fundamental level: we are all stardust (as so famously said by the late Carl Sagan). God is the most amazing artist of them all.

Post Memorial Day Stupor

Recovering from a great weekend, and this caught my eye from WUWT:

From ChicoEr.com: Flying close enough to Earth that in astronomic terms one could feel the breeze as it passed, a small asteroid flashed by just after midnight today. NASA reported the space rock, with the unimaginative name of 2012 KT42, was just 8,700 miles above the atmosphere when it went by.

There's a pretty cool gif on Anthony's page, do hie yerself over and take a gander..

And for me, after four days of friends, family, and food (as well as the first day of summer school), I need a nap.

Eclipse!

I don't have the equipment to take a photo like the one that Anthony Watts posted on WUWT today, absolutely no way could I get an awesome photo like the one that I simply insist you click over to see for yourself.  But I did get a few nice ones with my iPhone:

But be sure to go on over to Anthony's to see a really good photo. :)