Venus Rules the Dawn

Venus has now pulled far enough away from Earth to be The Morning Star and incredibly bright in the hour or two before sunrise. Mars sits reddish above Spica high in the southwest, Saturn, golden, high in the south but Venus catches your eye; it's the morning star and brilliant.
Jupiter is the evening (and night) star, outshining the many bright stars in the winter evening sky and with the moon new today (4:39pm) has little competition for brightest after dark. As the moon begins to wax - likely not easily visible until Sunday as a thin crescent- Jupiter rules the sky after dark.
It's cold, but the sky is spectacular this winter, so put on the layers and check it out, Today on Earth.