The changing phases of Venus, from September 2024 to March 2025. Credit: Efrain Morales ... Your name. Note. Your email address is used only to let the recipient know who sent the email.

Right now, Venus is high in the west as darkness falls. It’s bright enough to be visible in a clear blue daytime sky if you know where to look.

Throughout these phases, Venus displays lunar-like crescents when viewed through a telescope, shrinking to a thin sliver before conjunction and gradually growing again afterward. This is due to ...

Observing the phases of Venus helped Galileo conclude that planets in our solar system orbit the sun, not the Earth. Credit: Creators.com illustration Ask your friends and neighbors, and most will ...

Because Venus and Mercury are way more distant than the moon, a telescope is needed to see the phases. Right now Venus is showing us a “half moon” phase with about 50% of the planet in ...

Like our moon, Venus undergoes phases (although you need a telescope or binoculars to see them). When it’s on the far side of the sun, we see it fully lit like a full moon.

The phases of Venus, the Aurora Australis and the International Space Station transiting the Sun all feature as category winners in the Astronomy Photographer of the Year competition.