Venus Transit: A Celestial Rarity

08 June 2004: the planet Venus appeared to cross in front of the Sun as seen from Earth.

"There will be no other till the twenty-first century
of our era has dawned upon the Earth and the June
flowers are blooming in 2004.
What will be the state of science?
God only knows."
- William Harkness, U.S. Naval Observatory 1882