So on Monday astronomers aimed their telescopes skywards when Mercury passed directly between the Earth and the Sun.
Quite a lot has been going on:
NASA Instrument to Probe Planet Clouds on European Mission – Exoplanet Exploration: Planets
This artist's concept shows the European Space Agency's ARIEL spacecraft on its way to Lagrange Point 2 (L2) - a gravitationally stable, Sun-centric orbit - where it will be shielded from the Sun and have a clear view of the sky. NASA's JPL will manage the mission's CASE instrument.Credit: ESA/STFC RAL Space/UCL/Europlanet-Science Office
NASA will contribute an instrument to a European space mission that will explore the atmospheres of hundreds of planets orbiting stars beyond our Sun, or exoplanets , for the first time.
What makes a planet potentially habitable - CNN
Brevard Symphony Orchestra: The Planets | WFIT
Our 66th season opens with a Big Bang as we continue celebrating the 50th anniversary of the Apollo 11 moon landing.
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We blast off with Mothership by Grammy Award-winning composer Mason Bates. Excerpts from John Williams' iconic score for Close Encounters of the Third Kind will leave us all asking: Are we alone in the universe? Gustav Holst said this about his astrologically inspired masterpiece: "…the music of The Planets enables the mind to acquire some comprehension of the vastness of space where rational understanding fails." The Planets premiered over 100 years ago and has mesmerized us ever since.
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Planet 9 may have already been found, study suggests | Fox News
The research, published in Research Notes of the AAS , notes that TESS is able to take multiple images of the same spot in space, potentially locating trans-Neptunian objects, also known as TNOs.
Since TESS is able to detect objects at approximately 5 pixel displacement and Planet Nine "has an expected magnitude of 19 < V < 24," the possibility is raised "that TESS could discover it!" the authors wrote in the study.
"What TESS is doing is staring at regions in the sky for months for at a time," the study's lead author, Harvard University astrophysicist Matt Holman, said in an interview with Fox News. "It's looking for exoplanets and you can find those by looking at the paths of the host stars."
Northlanders Get A Rare Glimpse At The Planet Mercury - Fox21Online
DULUTH, Minn. – Both students and interest people from the community visited University of Minnesota Duluth’s Marshall A. Alworth Planetarium to take a rare peek at the planet Mercury during its transit across the sun.
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A sight of Mercury like this doesn’t happen very often, but when it does it motivates people from all over to come check it out.
“I was picturing a lunar eclipse, part of the sun being blocked. It’s really just a tiny little speck. That was really surprising,” said Reed Peer.
It's an asteroid! No, it's the new smallest dwarf planet in our solar system - CNN
(CNN) A large asteroid could be reclassified as a dwarf planet -- which could make it the smallest in the solar system -- after new research revealed its shape, astronomers said on Monday.
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