Mercury Transition

This transit happens when a smaller object, like the moon or a planet, passes in front of a star and dims some of its light.

Mercury will make its rare pass across the disk of the Sun on November 11. The stellar event will be visible from most parts of the Earth.

Mercury is set to make a transit across the sun on Monday morning for the last time until 2032. A pinprick of darkness will puncture a small hole in the sunlight as the planet traverses the solar disk during a 5.5-hour stretch, starting at 7:35 a.m. Eastern time.

If you missed the dance of Mercury over the Sun, you need not wait till 2032 which is the next time it will be seen in India again. Watch this video to catch the action.

Monday's transit was the first since Nasa's Messenger mission to Mercury, which orbited the planet from 2011 to 2015.

Astronomers celebrated Monday witnessing one of the highlights of the skywatchers' year, when the Sun, Mercury and Earth all lined up -- a phenomenon that happens just a dozen or so times per century.

Scores of people across the country today observed a rare astronomical phenomenon, Mercury's transit of the Sun, that occurs only 13 times in a century as planet Mercury was seen navigating as dot on the solar disc.

Marking a rare astronomical event -- the Mercury transit, the planet Mercury crossing in front of the Sun, was visible in India today from 4.43 pm till sunset at 7.01 pm in Delhi.

Mercury transit will be broadcast live video and images from the orbiting Solar Dynamics Observatory and other telescopes.

Stargazers will have a rare opportunity on Monday to witness Mercury fly directly across the face of the sun, a sight that unfolds once every 10 years or so, as Earth and its smaller neighboring planet come into perfect alignment.

It happens around 13 times a century: From our perspective, Mercury - the smallest planet in our solar system - will pass in front of the sun. Most of the world, including the United States, on Monday will be able to see the planet as a tiny black dot passing slowly in front of its host star. You shouldn't stare directly into the sun (ouch), but by...

This transit happens when a smaller object, like the moon or a planet, passes in front of a star and dims some of its light.

Mercury will make its rare pass across the disk of the Sun on November 11. The stellar event will be visible from most parts of the Earth.

Mercury is set to make a transit across the sun on Monday morning for the last time until 2032. A pinprick of darkness will puncture a small hole in the sunlight as the planet traverses the solar disk during a 5.5-hour stretch, starting at 7:35 a.m. Eastern time.

If you missed the dance of Mercury over the Sun, you need not wait till 2032 which is the next time it will be seen in India again. Watch this video to catch the action.

Monday's transit was the first since Nasa's Messenger mission to Mercury, which orbited the planet from 2011 to 2015.

Astronomers celebrated Monday witnessing one of the highlights of the skywatchers' year, when the Sun, Mercury and Earth all lined up -- a phenomenon that happens just a dozen or so times per century.

Scores of people across the country today observed a rare astronomical phenomenon, Mercury's transit of the Sun, that occurs only 13 times in a century as planet Mercury was seen navigating as dot on the solar disc.

Marking a rare astronomical event -- the Mercury transit, the planet Mercury crossing in front of the Sun, was visible in India today from 4.43 pm till sunset at 7.01 pm in Delhi.

Mercury transit will be broadcast live video and images from the orbiting Solar Dynamics Observatory and other telescopes.

Stargazers will have a rare opportunity on Monday to witness Mercury fly directly across the face of the sun, a sight that unfolds once every 10 years or so, as Earth and its smaller neighboring planet come into perfect alignment.

It happens around 13 times a century: From our perspective, Mercury - the smallest planet in our solar system - will pass in front of the sun. Most of the world, including the United States, on Monday will be able to see the planet as a tiny black dot passing slowly in front of its host star. You shouldn't stare directly into the sun (ouch), but by...