VENUS TRANSIT PHENOMENON

YOGYAKARTA, 6/6 - TRANSIT OF VENUS. Planet Venus (black dot) is seen through a telescope at Jogja Astro Club in Soropadan, Yogyakarta, during its transit across the sun on June 6, 2012. The rare phenomenon where planet Venus passes directly between the Sun and the Earth occured on Wednesday, from 05.00 to 11.49 local time (GMT+7). Astronomers predicted that the next transit of Venus will occur in 2117. FOTO ANTARA/Noveradika/Koz/NZ/ox/12.