... 15.06.2012 . ... The pair are just 35 million light-years distant and around 100,000 light-years across, about the size of our own spiral Milky Way. ... A Venus Transit Over the Baltic Sea . ... Venus. ... As its June 6 2012 transit begins Earth's sister planet crosses the edge of the Sun in this stunning view from the Hinode spacecraft. ... This dramatic telephoto view across the Black Sea on June 6 finds Venus rising with the Sun, the planet in silhouette against a ruddy and ragged solar disk. ...