Are you an early riser [ http://redfrog.norc ]? Over the last month or so, the bright planets [ http://antwrp.gsfc. ] Jupiter and Saturn have come to adorn eastern skies before sunrise [ http://redfrog.norc ]. In fact, astrophotographer Joe Orman [ http://home.cwix.co ] anticipated that an early bird's reward for looking east on June 10 would be this pleasing arrangement of Jupiter (top right), a crescent Moon, and Saturn (near center), but he was surprised to also find these eerie, iridescent clouds wafting through the pre-dawn sky over suburban Phoenix, Arizona, USA. The clouds turned out to be rocket [ http://www-istp.gsf ] engine [ http://www.wff.nasa ] trails [ ftp://pao.gsfc.nasa ] from defense missile tests at the range in White Sands [ http://ruidoso.net/ ], New Mexico ... about 300 miles away. While the Moon's phase [ http://aa.usno.navy ] is just past new moon [ http://lunar.arc.na ], gone now from the pre-dawn horizon, brilliant Jupiter [ http://galileo.ivv. ] and Saturn [ http://www.jpl.nasa ] can still be seen high toward the southeast in the constellation [ http://www.astro.wi constellations.html ] Aries.