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SacredGeometry20_13. NASA provides rare images of transit of Venus. Sky watchers gathered across the country Tuesday to witness the planet Venus floating across the face of the sun—but chances are they didn't see it like this.

NASA provides rare images of transit of Venus

The best seats in the house belonged to NASA, which captured images from its own high-tech spacecraft. The Solar Dynamics Observatory, or SDO, is the most advanced spacecraft ever designed to study the sun, and it provides images with a resolution eight times better than high-definition television, according to NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center. [Related: More photos of transit of Venus] The video shows the 6-hour, 40-minute event in about 3 minutes. Science fiction author Ray Bradbury dies. Science fiction writer Ray Bradbury looks at a picture that was part of a school project to illustrate characters … Ray Bradbury, author of "Fahrenheit 451," "The Martian Chronicles" and other iconic science fiction novels, died Tuesday night at the age of 91, according to The Associated Press.

Science fiction author Ray Bradbury dies

"His legacy lives on in his monumental body of books, film, television and theater, but more importantly, in the minds and hearts of anyone who read him, because to read him was to know him.