The 2016 Transit of Mercury
Tuesday, May 3, 2016 - 12:10
in Astronomy & Space
On May 9, 2016, they will see a strange spot on the sun--a dark circle moving across the solar disk. This is no ordinary sunspot. It's the planet Mercury, making a rare transit of the sun.
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