Mercury completing a transit across the Sun, SDO image

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Mercury completing a transit across the Sun, SDO image
Mercury completing a transit across the Sun on the 11th November 2019. This image was taken by the Atmospheric Imaging Assembly (AIA) telescope with 171 Angstrom filter on NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO). Mercury is seen as a very small black dot to the right of the Sun, silhouetted against the Sun's corona. The AIA telescope captures the churning plasma surface of the Sun and the corona extending out around the edges of the Sun. Transits of Mercury, as seen from Earth, occur 13 or 14 times per hundred years. This is more frequent than transits of Venus, mainly because Mercury is closer to the Sun and orbits it more rapidly. All transits of Mercury occur in May or November, the next taking place on the 13th November 2032. Transits of Venus and Mercury are used to refine the transit method technique which is used to discover exoplanets orbiting stars outside the Solar System.
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Crédit: Science Photo Library / SDO / Goddard Space Flight Center / NASA
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