APOD: 2026 October 14 - Mars and the Beehive Under an Aurora - NASA Science
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Today's featured image from NASA shows a stunning frame of Mars and the Honeycomb Cluster shining brightly in Earth's sky, as the aurora borealis appears.
Wednesday's NASA Astronomy Picture of the Day was a photograph by three Czech photographers. It captures the planet Mars in front of the open star cluster Jesličky under a "curtain" of aurora borealis. The image was taken a few days ago in Sweden, but the glow was so strong that people in the Czech Republic could also observe it.
Planet Mars and The Beehive Cluster under Auroral Curtain over Sweden
Planet Mars and The Beehive Cluster under Auroral Curtain over SwedenAstrophotographer Petr Horálek: "During Saturday's G3 geomagnetic storm, one detail was somewhat overlooked: the planet Mars was at its closest angular proximity to the center of the M44 Beehive (or Praesepe) open star cluster. While this "meeting" event itself was visible from many parts of the world only in the early morning hours, there were regions where it could be observe…
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