The slender Moon, 3 days and 19 hours old, approaches red Mars and red Aldebaran.
During the following night and morning, the Moon will cross the Hyades, passing closest south of Mars at 10 Universal Time (5 AM in eastern North America) and closer north of Aldebaran 6 hours later.
The bull Taurus has a triangular face composed of the Hyades cluster, of which Aldebaran, the glaring eye, appears to be a member but is not. The Hyades, in which there are several hundred fainter stars that we do not show, is the nearest cluster, being about 150 light years from us, but Aldebaran floats in front of it, at only 65 light years.
The Pleiades cluster appears more compact because it is about 450 light years away. Such clusters could be called star tribes, because they consist of stars of the same age, born from an interstellar cloud. Both of them lie outward from us in our spiral arm of the Milky Way galaxy.
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