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Jamie Carter

How to watch Mars photobomb the buzzing Beehive Cluster of stars this week

Several bright stars of the Beehive Cluster, a group of roughly 1,000 tight-knit stars

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. 

An open cluster is a loosely bound group of stars that have formed together; these clusters are commonly found in spiral galaxies such as the Milky Way, according to the European Space Agency. 

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