{"id":8453,"date":"2021-03-02T17:00:00","date_gmt":"2021-03-02T09:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bruneiastronomy.org\/web\/?p=8453"},"modified":"2021-07-20T14:23:47","modified_gmt":"2021-07-20T06:23:47","slug":"2021-mar-02-mars-closes-the-pleiades-star-cluster","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bruneiastronomy.org\/web\/2021\/03\/2021-mar-02-mars-closes-the-pleiades-star-cluster\/","title":{"rendered":"2021 Mar 02 Mars Closes the Pleiades Star Cluster"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Bandar Seri Begawan &#8211; A beautiful<\/strong> celestial parings of Mars closes approach with the Pleiades star cluster is set for this week.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The famous star cluster, also known as &#8220;Bintang Tujuh&#8221;, is a group of about 800 stars located 410 light-years away in the constellation Taurus.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"http:\/\/bruneiastronomy.org\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/20210304_marspleiades01.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"960\" height=\"720\" src=\"http:\/\/bruneiastronomy.org\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/20210304_marspleiades01.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-8454\" srcset=\"https:\/\/bruneiastronomy.org\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/20210304_marspleiades01.jpg 960w, https:\/\/bruneiastronomy.org\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/20210304_marspleiades01-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/bruneiastronomy.org\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/20210304_marspleiades01-768x576.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 960px) 100vw, 960px\" \/><\/a><figcaption>A spectacular view of Mars embraces the Seven Sisters Star Cluster. Photographed by Hj Md Azri bin Haji Ibrahim, PABD<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Look Northwest at dusk and throughout the evening to see the cosmic duo progress to setting in the West (at around 10.30 pm Brunei Time).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"http:\/\/bruneiastronomy.org\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/20210304_marspleiades02.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"960\" height=\"720\" src=\"http:\/\/bruneiastronomy.org\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/20210304_marspleiades02.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-8455\" srcset=\"https:\/\/bruneiastronomy.org\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/20210304_marspleiades02.jpg 960w, https:\/\/bruneiastronomy.org\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/20210304_marspleiades02-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/bruneiastronomy.org\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/20210304_marspleiades02-768x576.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 960px) 100vw, 960px\" \/><\/a><figcaption>A spectacular view of Mars embraces the Seven Sisters Star Cluster. Photographed by Md Qawiem bin Jamil, PABD<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">On March 02, 2021, members of the Brunei Darussalam Astronomical Society (PABD) captured the red planet appears close to the Messier 45 (M45) or Pleiades star cluster from Brunei Darussalam. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The closest approach happens tonight, March 03, when they will be about 3 degrees apart. The cosmic pair is the closest since January 1991, and the next closest one will be in February 2038.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"http:\/\/bruneiastronomy.org\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/20210303_marspleiades.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"960\" height=\"720\" src=\"http:\/\/bruneiastronomy.org\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/20210303_marspleiades.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-8458\" srcset=\"https:\/\/bruneiastronomy.org\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/20210303_marspleiades.jpg 960w, https:\/\/bruneiastronomy.org\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/20210303_marspleiades-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/bruneiastronomy.org\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/20210303_marspleiades-768x576.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 960px) 100vw, 960px\" \/><\/a><figcaption>Bintang Tujuh &amp; Mars. <em>Photographed by Hj Jamri bin Hj Jaafar, PABD<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bandar Seri Begawan &#8211; A beautiful celestial parings of Mars closes approach with the Pleiades&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8478,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_themeisle_gutenberg_block_has_review":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,17,61],"tags":[394,58,19,28],"class_list":["post-8453","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-pabd","category-gallery","tag-conjuntion","tag-mars","tag-pabd","tag-pleiades"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bruneiastronomy.org\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8453","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bruneiastronomy.org\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bruneiastronomy.org\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bruneiastronomy.org\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bruneiastronomy.org\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8453"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bruneiastronomy.org\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8453\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bruneiastronomy.org\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8478"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bruneiastronomy.org\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8453"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bruneiastronomy.org\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8453"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bruneiastronomy.org\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8453"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}