We Leap into March with a Lunar X, the Evening Moon Slides by Several Star Clusters, Venus near Uranus, and Betelgeuse Brightens!
The Open cluster Messier 35, also known as the Shoe-Buckle cluster sits near the feet of Castor in Gemini. The small open cluster NGC 2158 is to the lower right of it in this image from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey. The area of sky shown here measures about one finger’s width of the sky,…
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