An online website, from a historical perspective, of the study of the transit of Venus between the sun and the earth.

NASA site provides detailed information on the 2004 transit of Venus across the sun. Also explores the modern value of Venus transits and how they aid in the study of astronomy.

NASA site recounts the history of the Venus Transits that have occurred over the past centuries and the various descriptions astronomers have written about them.

Plants grow and change on a time scale that is too slow for us to observe in real time. Time-lapse photography is a simple technique that allows us to see the movements of plants and clearly demonstrates that plants are living and...

Take a tour of our solar system and learn fascinating details and observations about the planets.

A lesson activity where students create a terrarium inside a plastic bottle using a Venus Flytrap and other plants. They then observe growth and changes over time.

As technology has advanced, so do our views and understanding of the solar system. No longer do we have to rely on our unaided eyes to observe planets. View these high-quality images of planets provided by NASA spacecraft.

Photograph of cuneiform script tablet in the British Museum. This tablet recounts observations of Venus and is from the 7th century B.C.E.

Galileo Galilei (15 February 1564 - 8 January 1642) was a Tuscan (Italian) physicist, mathematician, astronomer, and philosopher who played a major role in the scientific revolution. His achievements include improvements to the telescope...