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NASA shows rare images of Mercury in transit

Mercury skipped across the vast, glaring face of the sun in a rare celestial transit Monday. Stargazers used solar-filtered binoculars and telescopes to spot Mercury -- a tiny black dot -- as it passed directly between Earth and the sun.
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