A satellite had a front-row seat as Mercury moved around the giant star.
An orbiter captured stunning imagery of the planet Mercury appearing to pass close by the sun. had a front-row seat as the planet Mercury moved around the giant star, and the entire episode was captured on imagery.videos and other observations from the January 3 transit, where Mercury appeared as a black circle across the face of the sun.the first planet in our solar system averages about 36 million miles away from the giant star.
"It’s not just looking at Mercury passing in front of the Sun, but passing in front of the different layers of the atmosphere," Miho Janvier, a physicist at the Institut d’Astrophysique Spatiale in France, said in a statement.
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