Astronomy lovers in Hawaii treated to a rare ‘Mercury Transit’ - Hawaii News Now

“It doesn’t move exactly in the same plane. That’s why transits don’t happen often. Most of time when its roughly aligned with us, its above or below the sun. We are very fortunate today that its perfect so mercury passing straight in front of sun,” Subaru Telescope astronomer Olivier Guyon said.

2019-11-12 02:33:00Z
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