{"id":106201,"date":"2019-11-12T16:51:05","date_gmt":"2019-11-13T02:51:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/?p=106201"},"modified":"2019-11-12T16:51:05","modified_gmt":"2019-11-13T02:51:05","slug":"mercury-transit-sun","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/2019\/11\/12\/mercury-transit-sun\/","title":{"rendered":"UH<\/abbr> astronomers, students track Mercury\u2019s transit across Sun"},"content":{"rendered":"Reading time: <\/span> < 1<\/span> minute<\/span><\/span>
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Mercury can be seen as a speck of black against the brilliance of the Sun. Photo credit: Maunakea Observatories<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

University of Â鶹´«Ã½<\/span> astronomers joined many observers around the world in tracking the transit of Mercury on November 11. <\/p>\n

A transit is when a planet passes in front of a star. Mercury and Venus are the only two planets that can be observed from Earth in transit. <\/p>\n

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The Institute for Astronomy helped people gathered at Waiʻalae<\/span> Beach Park to observe the event.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

About 30 UH<\/abbr> Mānoa students flew to Â鶹´«Ã½<\/span> Island to view the event at the Subaru Telescope as part of a group of around 200 people to use solar telescopes. UH<\/abbr> Mānoa\u2019s Institute for Astronomy<\/a> held a viewing party at Waiʻalae<\/span> Beach Park for more than 100 people.<\/p>\n

Mercury takes just 88 days to circle the Sun. It passes between the Sun and Earth frequently but usually out of view.<\/p>\n

The transit of Mercury will not be seen from Earth again until November 2032, and not from Â鶹´«Ã½<\/span> until 2049. The next transit of Venus will not be visible from Earth until 2117.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Groups gathered on Â鶹´«Ã½<\/span> Island and Oʻahu<\/span> to watch as Mercury could be seen passing between the Earth and the Sun. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[34,35,659,313,1164,9],"class_list":["post-106201","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-community","tag-astronomy","tag-institute-for-astronomy","tag-maunakea","tag-stem","tag-telescope","tag-uh-manoa","entry","has-media"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106201","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=106201"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106201\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":106224,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106201\/revisions\/106224"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=106201"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=106201"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=106201"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}