Bright Venus hangs near the lovely Beehive Cluster (M44) in Cancer this morning. Both rise more than two hours before the Sun and reach nearly 20° high in the east an hour before sunrise. Venus shines at magnitude –3.9, a blazing beacon just 1.4° southwest (to the upper right) of the Beehive.  At magnitude 3.1, Continue reading "The Sky Today on Sunday, August 31: Venus hangs with the Beehive" The post The Sky Today on Sunday, August 31: Venus hangs with the Beehive appeared first on Astronomy Magazine .