Early risers on Wednesday will get to see the moon pass the Beehive cluster at the heart of the constellation Cancer.
An illustration of the night sky on Wednesday showing the moon near Messier 44 , the Beehive cluster.
In the early morning on Wednesday , the moon will pass the Beehive Cluster, a collection of stars also known as Messier 44 in the constellation of Cancer.will be around three degrees from the Beehive Cluster which itself spans a width equivalent to about three moons. . The event should be visible with the naked eye as, though the moon is waning in its crescent phase , it is still quite bright. Also, the Beehive cluster is visible to the naked eye with a magnitude of 3.7.Observing the moon as it passes the Beehive cluster with binoculars in a location with a dark sky, however, will reveal the cluster in greater detail allowing more of the stars in the 1,000-strong swarm to be seen.
At a distance of around 550 light-years away, the Beehive — or NGC 2632 as astronomers call it — is the closest to Earth. It is also one of the most populated examples of these collections of stars. Open clusters are comprised of a few thousand stars that are thought to have formed from the same molecular cloud.
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