APOD: 2020 April 3 - The Traffic in Taurus

Thank you my friend Maj William W. 'Bill' Price for posting the NASA Astronomy Picture of the Day (APOD) for Friday, April 3, 2020ens titled "The Traffic in Taurus."
Image: The Traffic in Taurus - Image Credit & Copyright - Lionel Majzik
Ah yes the danger of close misses by lightyears may pose a hazard of insurance increases for said stars :-)

"Explanation: There's a traffic jam in Taurus lately. On April 1, this celestial frame from slightly hazy skies over Tapiobicske, Hungary recorded an impressive pile up toward the zodiacal constellation of the Bull and the Solar System's ecliptic plane. Streaking right to left the International Space Station speeds across the bottom of the telescopic field of view. Wandering about as far from the Sun in planet Earth's skies as it can get, inner planet Venus is bright and approaching much slower, overexposed at the right. Bystanding at the upper left are the sister stars of the Pleiades. No one has been injured in the close encounter though, because it really isn't very close. Continuously occupied since November 2000, the space station orbits some 400 kilometers above the planet's surface. Venus, currently the brilliant evening star, is almost 2/3 of an astronomical unit away. A more permanent resident of Taurus, the Pleiades star cluster is 400 light-years distant."

Since this a tongue-in-cheek post from NASA, here is a classic fantasy song with an appropriately weird video :-)
Traffic-Shoot Out at the Fantasy Factory
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WmHK2t17rE4

FYI COL Mikel J. Burroughs SMSgt Lawrence McCarterSPC Nancy GreeneSSG Franklin Briant1stsgt Glenn Brackin Sgt Kelli Mays Cpl James R. " Jim" Gossett JrSP5 Jeannie CarleSPC Chris Bayner-Cwik TSgt David L.PO1 Robert GeorgeSSG Robert Mark Odom
Maj Robert Thornton SFC (Join to see) SGT Steve McFarland MSG Andrew White Maj Bill Smith, Ph.D. Sgt Jackie Julius CPT Paul Whitmer

Excellent astronomy share sir, have a great RED Friday sir.

Awesome - Good morning Bill.