Conjunction of the waxing gibbous Moon near reddish Mars in a swirl of clouds - Fotografia de stock

January 3, 2023 - The waxing gibbous Moon (11.7 days old) near reddish Mars (at upper right), both set in a swirl of clouds, looking like they are in an interstellar nebula. Diffraction from ice crystals in the clouds adds the colourful corona around the Moon. This was the Moon-Mars conjunction of January 3, 2023. Mars was then about a month past opposition