Starwatch: Mars and Regulus will make for an eye-catching pair | Mars

LThis week to see a glamorous combination between Mars and Regulus, the brightest star in the lion Leo constellation, this week to the western sky. The graph shows the view from London at 2300 BST on 16 June 2025.

The celestial object pair will be separated less than twice the visible diameter of the Full Moon. This means that they are close to the same field of view, as well as being an easy point with the naked eye. Although they continue the week, they will get away from each other.

The color difference between them will be striking. While Mars will be red, Regulus shines with a blue-white color. Regulus is the brightest 21st star of the night sky and about 79 light years away from us. It contains slightly more than four floors of the mass of the sun and has a diameter four times larger and gives about 340 times the solar energy.

The conjunction from the southern hemisphere appears in the North-North-West. In addition, on June 19, the moon will be close to Saturn in the constellation of fish.