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Monthly Archives: May 2012
Venus transit – there’s an app for that!
Astronomers of the eighteenth century spent months travelling around the globe to time the transit of Venus in order to calculate the distance to the Sun. Three centuries later you only need to travel as far as the app store … Continue reading