Here's how to watch the Red Planet swoop across the Beehive Cluster — one of the closest star clusters to Earth — after sunset this week.
Mars is about to spend two nights moving across the Beehive Cluster, one of the most spectacular open clusters of stars in the night sky.
The Beehive Cluster's 1,000 stars formed just 600 million years ago; for comparison, the sun is about 4.5 billion years old. The cluster — also called Messier 44 , NGC 2632 and Praesepe — sits about 600 light-years from the solar system, according to NASA, which means the light you see left the stars about 600 years ago. Mars is currently 187.5 million miles from Earth, which is almost 17 light-minutes, according to Starry Night.
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