portion of a team's win total that is a direct result of a single player's performance.) James is leading the NBA in win shares for the fourth straight season.

The Heat have won 28 games so far this season, and LeBron's win shares total is 9.5, more than Dwyane Wade and Chris Bosh combined (4.7 and 4.4 respectively).

Not surprisingly, James has won the last two Eastern Conference Player of the Month awards, and he could be in line for his third MVP award by the time the season is over.ESA's Proba-2 had a ring-side seat for the transit of Mercury on 11 November 2019. Proba-2 monitors the Sun from Earth orbit and was able to spot Mercury’s transit as a small black disc – seen here moving from left to right across the face of the Sun.

The images in this movie were taken with the satellite's extreme ultraviolet telescope.

Solar transits – where a celestial body is seen to pass across the solar disc from the perspective of Earth – are relatively rare events. Mercury undergoes around 13 transits a century; the last occurred in 2016 but the next is not until 2032. Both Mercury and the Sun are destinations for ESA missions: BepiColombo will arrive at Mercury in 2025, while Solar Orbiter is getting ready for a