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Venus started passing behind the sun yesterday, June 3. SOHO’s LASCO C2 captured Venus about to pass behind the sun (or, in this case, behind the spacecraft imagery equipment’s sun-occulter). The occultation of Venus behind the sun – the “anti-transit” – started around 14 UTC (9 a.m. central) on June 3 as seen by SOHO’s LASCO 2 imager. Venus takes many hours to go to its deepest point behind the sun. It’ll be most deeply behind the sun today, June 4. Meanwhile, the Venus super...| EarthSky