Astronomy Picture of the Day - Venus and the Triply Ultraviolet Sun

APOD.NASA.gov ^ | 6 Mar, 2022 | Image Credit: NASA/SDO & the AIA, EVE, and HMI teams; Digital Composition: Peter L. Dove

[MtnClimber]

Explanation: This was a very unusual type of solar eclipse. Typically, it is the Earth's Moon that eclipses the Sun. In 2012, though, the planet Venus took a turn. Like a solar eclipse by the Moon, the phase of Venus became a continually thinner crescent as Venus became increasingly better aligned with the Sun. Eventually the alignment became perfect and the phase of Venus dropped to zero. The dark spot of Venus 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 toward the right corresponding to a coronal hole. Hours later, as Venus continued in its orbit, a slight crescent phase appeared again. The next Venusian transit across the Sun will occur in 2117.

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[MtnClimber]

[MtnClimber]

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[BenLurkin]

Tripply Trippy!

[bimboeruption]

I have a marble that looks like that.

[Jamestown1630]

The picture would make very nice wall decor.

(Better than the stuff they sell at Ikea, anyway...)

[ProtectOurFreedom]

To make it look really good, you’d have to Photoshop out that pesky black circle at 11 o’clock.

[Jamestown1630]

What is it?

Venus doesn’t have a moon...

[conservativeimage]

that’s the most hypnotic thing i’ve ever seen

[SamAdams76]

Venus and the Trippy Ultraviolet Sun.

[ProtectOurFreedom]

That’s Venus...the whole point of the APOD!

[ZOOKER]

What is it?
Venus doesn’t have a moon...

I assume we are actually looking at a picture of the SUN, and the dark circle is VENUS

[Jamestown1630]

Oh. I are not real smart about astronomy.

But I still like the picture.

[telescope115]

What an amazing picture!

[ProtectOurFreedom]

There...fixed it. Got rid of that ugly round black thing ruining the picture. ;>)

[rfp1234]

A spherical Faberge’ Egg.

[Jamestown1630]

Nice. But I kinda liked the ugly round black thing, after I was told what it was...

At first I thought that the pic was some kind of enhanced image of Venus. I didn’t read well enough.

But maybe someone could post a pretty picture of Venus.

[ProtectOurFreedom]

Here you go...Venus. This is the black circle in the sun photograph.

[Jamestown1630]

Thank you.

Nice, but it looks full of some sort of nerve system. Wats dat?

(I really like Jupiter...that’s MY ruling planet.)

[doorgunner69]

No wonder it is so hot on Venus. Like a moth over a campfire.