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THIS PICTURE TAKEN by multiple exposure in Munich shows five different phases of Venus crawling across the sun on June 8, 2004, during the last transit of Venus.-JOERG KOCH/AFP

Venus on the sun

June 6 will witness a once-in-a-lifetime phenomenon in astronomy: the transit of Venus.

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Juno's arrival in the Jupiter system. A depiction by an astronomer-artist of NASA.-

Juno to Jupiter

The main mission of the spacecraft Juno, which NASA launched in August 2011, is to unlock some of Jupiter's deepest mysteries.

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The deep, terracedcrater Camoes, named after the Portuguese poet Luiz Vaz de Camoes.-

Mercury up close

When MESSENGER, launched by NASA, began orbiting Mercury on March 18, it became the first spacecraft to do so.

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The Hubble Space Telescope as seen from the space shuttle Discovery in 1997.-NASA/AFP

A mirror to space

In the 20 years of its functioning, the Hubble Space Telescope has revealed hitherto unknown secrets.

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Ice exposed in trenches just a few centimetres deep dug by the Phoenix lander at the high northern latitudes of Mars.-

Man for Mars

The European Space Agency and Russia's Institute of Biomedical Problems plan to simulate a 520-day mission to Mars.

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Annular solar eclipse. Photographed from Scotland on May 31, 2003.-PICTURES: BY SPECIAL ARRANGEMENT

Ring of fire

A SPECTACULAR sight awaits people residing at the southern tips of Kerala and Tamil Nadu on the afternoon of January 15, 2010. The moon will pass dire

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The diamond ring effect, photographed during the October 24,1995, eclipse.-PICTURES: BY SPECIAL ARRANGEMENT

Solar spectacle

THE total eclipse of the sun that will occur on July 22, 2009, will be one of the most important astronomical events of this century for India as the

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Clyde Tombaugh, at the equipment with which he discovered Pluto.-PICTURES BY SPECIAL ARRANGEMENT

Pluto demoted

On August 24, 2006, the International Astronomical Union stripped Pluto of its status as a planet.

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THIS RECENT IMAGE taken from the Cassini spacecraft reveals a faint pinprick of light between Saturn's wing-like rings, upper left. That tiny dot is the earth. The image is the second ever taken of our world from deep space.-AP

Close encounters

The Cassini mission's two years with Saturn reveal new mysteries of the planet and its satellites.

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The most detailed view ever of Saturn's rings, obtained from the Cassini spacecraft.-REUTERS

A tour of Saturn

Titan's rich organic chemistry makes it a planetary-scale laboratory for studying the pre-biotic processes that may have led to the origin of life on

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Tracking a comet

The ESA's Rosetta spacecraft is on a 10-year mission to Comet Churyumov-Gerasimenko in a bid to unravel the secrets of comets and their place in the e

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A celestial spectacle

The transit of Venus, a rare astronomical event, will occur on June 8 and will be visible all over India.

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