As seen from Earth, Venus shines about 600 times brighter than Alcyone, the most luminous star in the Pleiades. During the weekend try scanning the group with binoculars. You'll see dozens of faint Pleiades invisible to the unaided eye.Among them, bright Venus looks like a supernova.his weekend, the planet Venus will have a rare close encounter with the Pleiades star cluster. Listen to this story via streaming audio, a downloadable file, or get help. March 31, 2004: The Pleiades are elusive.
Robert E. Lee began the war as a military advisor to Jefferson Davis, the first and only President of the Confederate States of America. Lee became commander of the Army of Northern Virginia when its original commander, General Joseph E. Johnston, was wounded in the Battle of Seven Pines in May 1862.
Full Answer. While Bragg led the Army of Tennessee in 1862, Jackson fought at the First Battle of Bull Run. General Lee was a pivotal commander during the Civil War. At the end of the war, he surrendered the last of the Confederate forces at Appomattox to General Ulysses S. Grant in April of 1865. The Civil War lasted from 1861 to 1865.