Rare celestial event: Venus passes through Beehive Cluster tonight.

Venus will pass over the Beehive Cluster, a star cluster located in the constellation of Cancer, from Monday to Wednesday this week. The Beehive Cluster is a swarm of around 1,000 stars, stretching about three times the size of a full moon. The spectacle will be visible to the unaided eye, but clearer with a telescope or binoculars. The Beehive Cluster is one of the closest star clusters to our solar system and includes yellowish tinted stars which are red giants and blue main sequence stars. Stargazers should look north towards Castor and Pollux in Gemini and southeast for Cancer to spot the Beehive Cluster.