MORNING PLANETS: The planet Venus, which crossed from one side of the Sun<br />to the other on Nov. 1st, is now a bright morning "star." Look for it<br />hanging low in the eastern sky just before dawn. Now that Venus has<br />emerged from the glare of the Sun, you can see four planets before local<br />sunrise: Venus, Mars, Jupiter and Saturn. Visit spaceweather.com for sky<br />maps and for pictures of Venus, which looks like a thin crescent through<br />amateur telescopes.<br /><br />AURORA WATCH: On Nov. 9th, an M4-class explosion near sunspot 180 hurled a<br />lopsided coronal mass ejection toward Earth. Sky watchers should be alert<br />for auroras on Nov. 11th or 12th when the cloud sweeps past our planet.