Yesterday, millions of people the world over (and a handful of astronauts, over the world) looked to the skies to watch Venus inch its way across the face of the Sun for the last time in over a century.
Some pretty spectacular photos have been popping up since the transit began less than a day ago. Here are a few of our favorites (make sure you click for hi-res versions). You can also check out countless beautiful user-submitted images on flickr and SpaceWeather's Realtime Image Gallery.
The black disc of Venus becomes visible against the Sun's corona in this far-UV photograph of the planet's approach, photographed from NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory
NASA's SDO satellite's first image of the transit of Venus across the face of the Sun
The transit as seen from Earth in Budapest, Hungary (Peter Komka/AP)
Venus in transit, as seen from the banks of the Ganges River in Varanasi, India Rajesh Kumar/AP)
Watching the transit of Venus on an image projected through a telescope (Bikas Das/AP)
The transit of Venus as seen through the clouds at sunrise in Sofia, Bulgaria (Nikolay Doychinov/AFP - Getty Images)
The transit as seen from NASA's SDO
NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory captures the path Venus across the face of the sun.
A bird alights atop a dome of the Taj Mahal as Venus begins its transit (Kevin Frayer/AP)
