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Catching a glimpse of the Transit of Venus
Posted: 06.05.2012 at 10:39 PM
Updated: 06.06.2012 at 6:35 AM
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Dozens gathered at Palmer Park Tuesday to catch a glimpse of Venus.  / FOX21: Sade Malloy
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COLORADO SPRINGS, COLO. -- Did you catch the once-in-a-lifetime astronomical event?

It's called the Transit of Venus and is when the planet Venus crosses in front of the sun.

The rare six-hour event was cause for celebration because it will be 105 years before it's visible again.

The Colorado Springs Astronomical Society turned Tuesday's Transit of Venus into a communitywide event, sharing their solar telescopes with the public.

"I think it's really cool, but it's really hard to see, it's just like a black dot," Ashley Adams, a junior astronomer, said.

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The goal of Tuesday's event is to show local children that you can have fun with science.

So, one after another, children of all ages took a crack at the telescopes to see what all the hype was about.

"Just being able to see what's out there and having questions, and us telling you what we know," Jim West, President of the Colorado Springs Astronomical Society, said.

And after dozens of curious Colorado Springs locals got to ask questions and take a peak at the planet, it proves that science does matter.

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