Mercury Transit: How We Scaled the Cosmos
Wednesday, May 11, 2016 - 14:00
in Astronomy & Space
As the Mercury transit unfolded over the Atacama Desert, astronomers remembered the pioneering calculations that were made to begin to understand the scale of the universe.
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