Ele Willoughby, PhD<p>For the <a href="https://spore.social/tags/Spacetober" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Spacetober</span></a> day 15 prompt celestial event: the Transit of Venus. </p><p>Much like a solar eclipse, when our moon's orbit brings it between the Earth and sun, the transit of Venus occurs when the planet Venus passes directly between the sun and us (or any other planet) partially obscuring or occulting the disk of the sun. Venus is much larger than our moon, 🧵1/n<br> </p><p><a href="https://spore.social/tags/linocut" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>linocut</span></a> <a href="https://spore.social/tags/sciArt" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>sciArt</span></a> <a href="https://spore.social/tags/spaceArt" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>spaceArt</span></a> <a href="https://spore.social/tags/planets" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>planets</span></a> <a href="https://spore.social/tags/MastoArt" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>MastoArt</span></a> <a href="https://spore.social/tags/Venus" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Venus</span></a> <a href="https://spore.social/tags/TransitOfVenus" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>TransitOfVenus</span></a> <a href="https://spore.social/tags/reliefPrint" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>reliefPrint</span></a></p>