India Behind The Lens (News Centre)

Guwahati/ Hyderabad/ Lucknow/ Nainital,  (ANI): The rare astronomical event of planet Venus passing directly between the Sun and Earth, the century's last transit, astonished sky gazers and astronomers across the country today, as people assembled in large numbers at planetariums to catch the once-in-a-lifetime view. A professor from Guwahati explained the significance of a transit and called it a rare celestial event. People across the country were thrilled to witness this once-in-a-lifetime opportunity and left no stone unturned to catch a glimpse of the celestial transit as such an event occurs every 105 years.