Indian children use cardboard eclipse glasses as they prepare to watch the transit of Venus in Allahabad, India. Stargazers around the world are setting up special telescopes to view the once-in-a-lifetime celestial cameo of Venus passing in front of the sun.
(Photo by Rajesh Kumar Singh / AP)
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