A rising popular science star in the mold of Carl Sagan, Brian...

A rising popular science star in the mold of Carl Sagan, Brian Cox, and Neil deGrasse Tyson — someone I suspect you’ll be seeing much more of in the years to come — is a young Oxford physicist named Andrew Steele.

His excellent 3-and-a-half minute video on the Venus transit — and how it works and why it’s as rare as it is — is quite brilliant.