... Clouds of glowing gas mingle with lanes of dark dust in the Trifid Nebula, a star forming region toward the constellation of Sagittarius. ... Venus and Jupiter appeared to glide right past each other earlier this month. In a slow day-by-day march, Jupiter sank into the sunset horizon while Venus remained high and bright. ... Venus, of course, is much further away from the Earth than the Moon, so the passing was really just an angular illusion. IC 4406: A Seemingly Square Nebula . ...