Mercury passes near the sun in the sky, on the far side of our solar system for the Earth, in a phenomenon called the upper conjugation, today, Tuesday, at 07:56 pm Mecca time (04:56 pm GMT), and the astronomical association in Jeddah revealed in a report She perceives this as occurring once during each of the planet’s 116-day pairing cycles, as well as at the conclusion of Mercury’s morning sky appearance and shortly before he transitions to the evening sky.
Despite the difficulty of watching the planet Mercury, some ancient civilizations monitored his movement in the sky five thousand years ago, where the Samaritan astronomers in Iraq managed to monitor it, and the Italian astronomer watched Galileo Galilee after he invented the telescope in the year 1631, and he monitored it for the first time as he crossed in front of sun disk.
The planet of Mercury was referred to in ancient cultures, religions, and myths.
Mercury has been observed for thousands of years, beginning in the first millennium BC. Greek astronomers believed that this planet was two separate criminals, before the fourth century BC, and they called one of these two crimes the name “Apollo”, and they believed that it did not appear to be visible except at the sunrise, and they called the other “Hermes”, and they believed that it was not It is only visible at dusk.
The mythical sceptre of the Greek Trade god Hermes serves as the inspiration for Mercury’s astronomical symbol.
Mercury is considered the prevailing planet in the astronomer of Gemini and the Virgin Tower according to astrology, where its astronomical effect is said to be in aspects when it passes within these oxans, which affects the fortunes of people born during this time (according to their opinion).
The “Hermes Hermes,” which was said to occupy about a quarter of the planet’s southeast quarter, was considered by the ancient astronomers to be one of the planet’s fundamental advantages.
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