If you liked the images of the transit of Venus you will love the NASA video with images of the Solar Dynamics Observatory

For many children, all of astronomy is like a thing of planets, stars and satellites that appear in science fiction movies on television and in video games. However this past week they have been appearing lots of tremendously attractive images of Venus traveling through the sun. What happens every day what happens is that from Earth it is not seen more than in few occasions.

At NASA video, which is the astronomical image of June 11, 2012, Venus can be seen moving through the Sun. These are images taken by the Solar Dynamics Observatory, an observatory that orbits in space and that had no cloud problems nor pollution to see the transit of the second planet of the solar system. In Microsiervos there is a collection of well-classified links to a large number of images.

Though Children's imagination knows no limits, you can show them the video to explain how out there besides the sun, the planets are circling the star of our system. In addition, they can be explained that when the planet crosses the sun and is seen from Earth, it is called transit and that it can be observed with the appropriate instruments, because in the case that you try to look without the appropriate devices, you run a high risk because Sun almost everything is achicharra. I remember my amateur telescope that one day he started to smoke when he was mistakenly pointing at the sun.

The next transit of Venus will happen very late, in 2117 I believe. Anyway NASA has many attractive goals out there so we know them at home through the Internet or from the window of our home.

Video: Venus Transit 2012: Incredible Images Caught on NASA Satellite (May 2024).