There’ll be a little black spot on the Sun today… (in June). Watch out for Venus come sunrise.
A rare transit of Venus will be visible at local sunrise throughout the Mideast on the morning of Wednesday June 6, 2012. A transit occurs when one celestial body passes in front of another from an observer’s point of view. A solar eclipse is a kind of transit. The most familiar kind of transit is a solar eclipse, where the moon– or much more frequently, a portion of the moon, transits the sun. Several solar eclipses can occur with in a year, but total solar eclipses are much rarer (and from personal experience, much more beautiful!) Because totality can only be seen from a narrow strip of land, 50 to 100 miles across, each location on earth sees a total solar eclipse only about once every 300 years. Parts of the Mideast witnessed a total solar eclipse in 1999 and 2006 (I saw the 2006 one from southern Turkey.) The next solar eclipse in the Mideast wont arrive until August 2, 2027. But there’s always Venus.



Shining a light on energy consumption.
Although water scarcity is unlikely to lead to water waters, it is still devastating for the development and survival of any nation


