2012 in astronomy



Special Event of the year
 June 6 – The second and last solar transit of Venus of the century. The next pair is predicted to occur in 2117 and 2125.

Transits of Venus across the disk of the Sun are among the rarest of planetary alignments. Indeed, only seven such events have occurred since the invention of the telescope (1631, 1639, 1761, 1769, 1874, 1882 and 2004). The next transit of Venus will occur on 6 June 2012.

Eclipses
Two solar and two lunar eclipses take place in 2012 as follows.

 Annular Solar eclipse of May 20, 2012
 Partial Lunar eclipse of June 04, 2012
 Total Solar eclipse of November 13, 2012
 Penumbral lunar eclipse of November 28, 2012

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