Yesterday brought the Transit of Venus, in which the second planet in our solar system passed directly between Earth and the Sun. Some of DCist’s contributing photographers waited out cloudy skies and captured some truly stellar images of this rare celestial event

Image courtesy NASA’s Lunar and Planetary Laboratory The Earth travels around the Sun at a brisk 18 miles per second. At the same time, the Sun, dragging the solar system with it, orbits around the center of the Milky Way Galaxy at around 155 miles per second. The Milky Way orbits within our Local Group, which is being pulled by the gravity of the massive Virgo Cluster. And finally, we move relative to the…