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Article: VENUS MOVES ACROSS SUN'S FACE.(News)
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- The Cincinnati Post (Cincinnati, OH)
- Article date:
- June 8, 2004
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Byline: Mike Corder Associated Press
SYDNEY, Australia -- Astronomy buffs hunched over their telescopes today, staring at the sky through dark filters as a black ball -- the planet Venus -- began creeping across the face of the sun in one of the rarest of celestial spectacles.
In Australia, one of the first places to glimpse the transit of Venus, the sight has special significance. This country's east coast was "discovered" by British explorer James Cook on his way home from viewing the 1769 transit in Tahiti.
Planetariums the world over -- from India's eastern city of Bhubaneswar to New York City -- set up telescopes with the solar ...