... Venus and Jupiter at Dawn . ... On Monday morning, Venus and Jupiter gathered close in dawn skies, for some separated by about half the width of a full moon. ... Visible near the image center, at least two long funnel-shaped clouds, each roughly half a light-year long, have been formed by extreme stellar winds and intense energetic starlight. ... Surreal Moon . ... Big, bright, and beautiful, a Full Moon near perigee, the closest point in its elliptical orbit around our fair planet, rose on August...