The video, captioned "LA this morning," shows a surreal landscape cloaked in blackened debris under a red-hued sky, with fires ... "Hauntingly beautiful but that's so scary," a third added.

Then it did the opposite, appearing to rise higher into the pre-dawn sky in the east during a dazzling “Morning Star” phase. Venus, now shining at a magnitude of -4.5 in the constellation Leo, ...