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Venus always appears near the sun (hence the "morning star" moniker).
by eps 2y ago
Venus always appears near the sun (hence the "morning star" moniker).
- usr1106 2y agoIf it's near the sun you cannot see it in the middle of the night (except in polar areas during summer). But why only morning and not evening?
- fifilura 2y agoMornings and evenings. It is because its path is closer to the Sun. So when looking towards it you are always partly looking towards the Sun.
- usr1106 2y agoSo you are saying the morning star name is technically wrong? It should be the morning and evening star? Of course star is wrong, too...
- defrost 2y agoYou'd prefer the more accurate and historic Wandering Star? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Classical_planet https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Classical_planet
- jameshart 2y agoVenus is known as either the ‘morning star’ or ‘evening star’ depending on where Venus is in its orbit relative to Earth. It actually just recently (start of June) went behind the sun; it’s still too close to the sun in the sky to really be visible at all at the moment. As it moves further out from behind the sun it will start being visible in the evening sky in late July right after the sun sets, so it will be the ‘evening star’ again for the next eight months or so before it passes in front of the sun, disappearing from view for a bit, then comes back as the morning star next summer.
- mandibeet 2y agoIt is just so fascinated for me