... This lovely twilight scene, recorded last April, finds a young crescent Moon low in the west at sunset. Above it, stars shine in the darkening sky but they too are soon to drop below the western horizon. Reflections on Planet Earth . ... The robotic Venus Express spacecraft launched by the European Space Agency in 2005 November arrived at Venus in 2006 April. ... xxxedit and linkxxx) In the well known Pleiades star cluster, starlight is slowly destroying this wandering cloud of gas and dust. ...