Sentence examples for a transit of from inspiring English sources

No living person has ever witnessed a transit of Venus.

Such an occurrence is called a transit of Venus, one of the rarest of astronomical events".

Extrasolar planets (e.g., HD 209458b) have been discovered when they perform a transit of their stars.

The last such occurrence, called a transit of Venus, was in 1882.

A "transit of Venus" happens when the sun, Venus and Earth are in perfect alignment.

Unlike a transit of Mercury, a transit of Venus can be watched without magnification through a suitable dark filter or as an image projected on a screen through a pinhole lens.

A transit of Venus has been recorded just six times before; one will not recur until 2117.

The first observations of a transit of Venus came from Jeremiah Horrocks in Much Hoole, a tiny village in Lancashire.

The event, called a transit of Venus, once caused nations to mount competitive expeditions to view it from optimum locations.

And it would take spacecraft observations of a transit of Mercury in 1999 before the black-drop effect mystery was solved.

In 1753 he organized a worldwide study of a transit of Venus (1761), the first such systematic study to be made.