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A road worker, with a mechanical digger has accidentally severed a fibre optic cable late yesterday in central Australia cutting NASA’s live stream and throwing a global Webcast of the rare transit of Venus to chaos. The outage has affected communities and major centers that include Tennant Creek and Alice Springs high school. The broadcast from the Alice Spring high school was a part of cooperation between the school, Columbus State University and NASA, the US space agency.
The accident brought down the Internet connections of the school that caused the streaming of the rare astronomical event to be delayed for an hour. Telstra's Jane de Gault said the broadcast was expected to be repaired later in the afternoon.
Even though the Internet connections of the school was reconnected within half an hour, the live stream of the planet Venus moving across the sun failed to continue as expected. It was not yet known whether the disruption of the streaming was due to the incident happened.
Many of the international scientists assembled in the central Australian town to benefit from the clear skies and gaze at the Venus as it took six and a half hour to pass through the Earth and the Sun. Hundreds of people have been watching the transit using free telescopes on the city’s boulevard and the clears skies and dry weather made it possible for them to view a perfect view from near.
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