Jackie Friedman, top left, Justin Donawa, middle, and Tyler Dowse, top right, all students in Astronomy 1 at Dartmouth College, view the transit of Mercury projected through a telescope onto white paper on the green in Hanover, N.H. Monday May 9, 2016. The Dartmouth College astronomy and physics department set up telescopes for public viewing and the class took the opportunity to do a lab and record data on the transit. (Valley News - James M. Patterson) Copyright Valley News. May not be reprinted or used online without permission. Send requests to permission@vnews.com.
Jackie Friedman, top left, Justin Donawa, middle, and Tyler Dowse, top right, all students in Astronomy 1 at Dartmouth College, view the transit of Mercury projected through a telescope onto white paper on the green in Hanover, N.H. Monday May 9, 2016. The Dartmouth College astronomy and physics department set up telescopes for public viewing and the class took the opportunity to do a lab and record data on the transit. (Valley News - James M. Patterson) Copyright Valley News. May not be reprinted or used online without permission. Send requests to permission@vnews.com. Credit: James M. Patterson