Mercury in Transit

An infrequent astronomical event takes place today. For five hours today, the planet Mercury will transit the sun beginning at 19:12 GMT.

Mercury is so tiny -- 1/194th the size of the sun -- and looking at the sun is so dangerous to the eyes that viewing must be done with a properly outfitted telescope or online telescope cameras, experts say. (Watch the last time that Mercury, appearing as a tiny black dot, crossed the sun -- :59)

Take a break from election news, and give a little consideration to the cosmos. Unlike the subjectivity of politics, our universe is objective and real. Get centered. Omm.