Black Diamond in the Sky

The transit of Venus is a rare astronomical event that occurred on the 6th of June 2012, when the planet Venus passed directly between the Earth and the Sun, seen as a tiny black disk moving across the face of the Sun. This once-in-a-lifetime event will next occur in 105 years, to be seen in transit only in the year 2117. Yahoo! readers who captured the event shared their photographs of this exciting astronomical phenomenon.