Cloud cover will block our view, but you should never look directly at the sun anyways.
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It will take the planet Mercury a little over seven hours to cross in front of the sun today, and NASA is providing a live stream of the event.
The transit, when a planet crosses in front of a star, is rare, happening about 13 times every one hundred years. The next transit of Mercury will occur Nov. 11, 2019.