Solar Conjuction w/ Mercury

Mercury has phases and today it is full. Don’t look, though, because the bright rocky planet is only 2o from the sun. It’s a high-noon solar conjunction that only SOHO (the Solar and Heliospheric Observatory) can see. SOHO uses its onboard coronagraph to block the sun’s glare and reveal the planet nearby.

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