Hi stargazers! Mercury is our sun’s innermost planet. So this small, speedy planet always lies near the sun in our sky. #Mercury is now in the west after sunset, farthest from the sunset tonight, at its greatest #elongation. But it's still exceedingly low in the sky as viewed from the Northern Hemisphere. Meanwhile, the Southern Hemisphere is enjoying its best evening apparition of Mercury for 2025. 🌌 Read more about Mercury at its greatest elongation: https://earthsky.org/tonight/mercury-after