L ike the Sun shining through the clouds in the early morning, a bright star within the star-forming nebula N79 appears to burst forth through a web of cooler gas and dust in this image taken by ...

SATURDAY: Clouds will give way to some sun in the afternoon ... But a brief break is coming from the cold, at least through Monday, before the cold and wind return for the middle of next week.

These are noctilucent (night-shining) clouds. “Even though the sun has set in Gale Crater ... so you can follow Curiosity’s adventures through a constant stream of Mars postcards.

But the general trend will be for a mix of sun and clouds through the day ahead. Temperatures started out chilly this morning with many of us returning to the 40s where skies cleared before ...

Winds remain out of the west for much of the weekend, but temperatures remain mild, and continue to warm up heading into next week.

That's Venus, which has global clouds of sulfuric acid that make it ... Venus reached its greatest elongation east from the sun, shining brilliantly in the southwest sky after sunset.