Pleiades-Moon conjunction

Credit: BABAK TAFRESHI/SCIENCE PHOTO LIBRARY

Caption: Pleiades-Moon conjunction. Amateur astronomers observing a rare occultation of the Pleiades star cluster (left of Moon) by a crescent Moon (centre) in the evening sky. The bright 'star' above the observer at left is the planet Mars.

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