ScienceCasts: Pink Planet at Sunset (by ScienceAtNASA)

Visit http://science.nasa.gov/ for breaking science news.

The planet Mercury is about to make its best apparition of the year for backyard sky watchers. Look west at sunset for a piercing pink planet surrounded by twilight blue.

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My Favourite Element - Mercury (by TheRoyalInstitution)

The Ri’s very own Andrew Marmery and Olympia Brown celebrate filming the Christmas Lectures by sharing their love of element number 80.

Each day in December, we’ll publish a new video revealing the elements that really excite and inspire people. For an exclusive first look at the latest video visit the Ri’s Online Advent Calendar: www.advent.richannel.org

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What’s Up January 2012? Dusk to Dawn Planets (by JPLnews)

Venus, Jupiter, Mars and Saturn are on display this month. There’s the Quadrantid meteor shower on the 4th plus a telescopic challenge - asteroid Eros.

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What’s Up Nov: Mars Launch & Planet Magnetospheres (by JPLnews)

Every magnet generates a magnetic field, and several objects in our solar system generate their own magnetic fields. The Sun, Earth, Mercury, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune all have them. Plus this month learn about the launch of Mars Science Laboratory, the rover named Curiosity. Oh, and when and where to see Jupiter,Mars, Venus and Mercury!

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ScienceCast: The Sleepy Hollows of Mercury (by NASAtelevision)

NASA’s MESSENGER probe has discovered a surprise on Mercury: Something is digging “hollows” in the surface of the innermost planet.

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