If you've never seen Mercury, now is your chance — the next two weeks offer great opportunities to view the solar system's innermost planet.
The "swift planet" — so named because it orbits the sun in just 88 days — is notoriously difficult to see because it's always very close to the sun. Most of the time, Mercury is either lost in the sun's glare or on the other side of the sun from our point of view on Earth.
