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Joe Rao

How to see Mercury, the moon and the Gemini twins pass close together in the night sky this week

Night sky map showing a Young Moon with Mercury and Gemini's Twins.

During the final week of June and continuing into the first week of July, we'll have a fair chance at sighting Mercury, the innermost planet to the sun.

Many people have never noticed that Mercury swings rapidly back and forth relative to the sun in our sky, while moving along in an orbit scarcely more than half as far from the sun as Venus.

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