Sky watchers in orbit over Venus' rare solar transit
Monday, June 4, 2012 - 23:30
in Astronomy & Space
Astronomers and amateurs alike are abuzz over an event that has inspired science, song and poetry for centuries.As a scientist working in the cutting-edge field of exoplanets, Jean-Michel Désert usually trains his eye at far-off reaches of the Milky Way, searching for planets circling super-distant stars.