At the beginning of May the planet Mercury is set to travel in front of the sun in a rare event that we will be able to see from Earth. The planet will not travel between our planet and the sun again for another three and a half years. Businessinsider.com reports: Here’s everything you need to know to watch. The transit of Mercury occurs when Mercury passes between the Sun and Earth, and happens around 13 or 14 times each century. This year the event kicks off on May 9 just after 7am EDT (9pm AEST, 11am UTC), with the planet taking around 8 hours to make its glorious way across the Sun. The good news is that the entire event will be visible to those on North America’s east coast, as well as most of South America, western Europe and the west coast of Africa. And stargazers in western Asia and western North America will also be able to see part of the transit. The bad news is that people in Indonesia, Australasia and eastern Asia are going to miss the whole thing during our night time, but don’t panic, because there are plenty of options for viewing online (including the [...]