Tag: Transit of Mercury
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Watch Mercury move across the sun online — or in the sky, if you’re lucky and careful
A multiple-exposure image from NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory shows Mercury’s track across the sun’s disk in 2016. (NASA / GSFC / SDO Image / Genna Duberstein) The planets will be aligned on Monday for a rare astronomical event known as the transit of Mercury, and skywatching fans are sure to see it even if the…
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Transit of Mercury: How you can watch an astronomical rarity despite the clouds
A multiple-exposure photo shows Mercury as a speck making its way across the sun’s disk. (Credit: NASA) For the first time in a decade, we Earthlings can watch the planet Mercury’s black speck pass across the sun today – even in Seattle, where the skies are partly cloudy at best. “This is one of the…