I bet it's hot there.

My favorite fun astronomy fact is that a transit like this (Venus, but still) is how we managed to figure out our distance to the Sun in the 1700s

My socks were appropriately blown off but I still didn't get invited.

I mean it would but I’ve known the scale of the universe since i still threw myself birthday parties…lol

So conditioned that NDT is talking bullshit and people dunking on him that I had to read it a couple of times to understand it.

Imagine what the sun would look like standing on Mercury.

so is basically the whole sky sun on mercury during the day?

I tried wiping the dust off my screen 😭

The morning of my birthday party I hung out with my physics teacher (it was a Holiday from high school) who's also an astronomer and we watched mercy transit the sun.