... Daytime Moon Meets Morning Star . ... Venus now appears as planet Earth's brilliant morning star standing above the eastern horizon before dawn. ... The Pleiades Deep and Dusty . ... The well known Pleiades star cluster is slowly destroying part of a passing cloud of gas and dust. The Pleiades is the brightest open cluster of stars on Earth's sky and can be seen from almost any northerly location with the unaided eye. ... Cassini Spacecraft Crosses Saturns Ring Plane . ... The comet, a relic.. ...