Livestream Venus Passing Through Beehive Cluster Tonight

Venus will pass close by the Beehive Cluster today, and a free livestream of the celestial event will be hosted by astronomer Gianluca Masi and the Virtual Telescope Project. The Beehive Cluster, also known as Messier 44, is a dense cluster of stars in the Cancer constellation. Despite appearing to be in the midst of the buzzing "bees" of M44, Venus is actually much closer to Earth than the cluster. Venus will continue to brighten in the night sky this month as it approaches an inferior conjunction in August.