Space! (32 images)

Venus begins transit across the Sun, the last time the event will occur until 2117 as this solar event happens in pairs eight years apart and separated from each other by either 105 or 121 years as pictured in NASA/SDO handout photograph on June 5, 2012. UPI/NASA/SDO, HMI, AIA

This NASA image captured by the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope released on June 25, 2012 shows galaxy DDO 82. This dwarf galaxies contains between a few million and a few billion stars. DDO 82 can be found in the constellation of Ursa Major (the Great Bear) approximately 13 million light-years away. UPI/NASA

This undated NASA image taken by Fifteen orbits of the recently launched Suomi NPP satellite shows a synthesized view of Earth showing the Arctic, Europe, and Asia, June 26, 2012. UPI/NASA