Venus

Venus is one of the brightest planet in the Solar System because if reflects 70% of sunlight back and is also the closest to Planet Earth.

As the Moon came in between Earth & Venus, the brightness of latter was expected to be curtailed by nearly 250 times. Though, the two planets are miles apart but as they align together in a symmetrical line, this makes it a puzzle for hundreds of thousands of curious skywatchers. New Delhi: The Solar system along with 9 planets and its numerous enigmas continue to puzzle the mankind.

By India Today Science Desk: Days after Venus and Jupiter came together for a rare conjunction, the brightest planet in our solar system will come close to ...

It will not only be Venus which will be in the evening sky. The lunar body is in the new moon phase and just over nine per cent of the surface was visible. While Venus is one of the brightest objects in the evening sky, the Moon trumped its brightness by nearly 250 times thanks to its closeness to our planet.

PETALING JAYA: The lunar occultation of Venus has caused a buzz on social media. On Twitter, the "Venus" topic has been listed as trending in Malaysia, ...

Photos of the phenomenon by social media users were also shared in their comments sections, with many posting pictures from different states of the country. Photos on social media have been circulated, with many snapping away at the sight. On Twitter, the "Venus" topic has been listed as trending in Malaysia, with 69,000 tweets.

While the heavenly bodies appear close to each other, their actual distance is millions of kilometres apart. Read more at straitstimes.com.

No, it’s the planet Venus – the brightest natural object that can be seen in the sky with the naked eye, apart from the sun and moon. The phenomenon is believed to herald the beginning of the astrological new year, and marks the time for resetting a new chapter in one’s life. Is the celestial orb a burning star?

The moon and Venus were seen in conjunction in the Singapore night sky on Friday (24 Mar) and many netizens shared enthralling photos.

They seemed close because a lunar occultation was imminent, meaning the moon passed in front of the planet. Another netizen also shared a photo of the moon and Venus over the Marina Bay Sands. One stargazer even recorded a timelapse video of the moon and Venus moving behind clouds together. Since the moon is closer to Earth than Venus, when the three line up in a straight line, the moon will block Venus from us. However, this is an illusion as the moon is 375,700 km from Earth and Venus is 185 million km away from us. Stargazers described the sight as the moon and Venus being “in conjunction”, i.e.

A team of researchers, including Brown planetary scientist Jim Head, propose using the James Webb Space Telescope to look at five planets in the Venus Zone, ...

Studying exoplanets in the Venus Zone could give astronomers a better understanding of whether Venus was ever habitable. The research team proposes the planets identified in the paper as targets for the Webb telescope in 2024. It is similar to the concept of a habitable zone, which is a region around a star where liquid surface water could exist. The Venus Zone encompasses the region around a star where it’s too hot for a planet to have water but not too hot for it to have no atmosphere. These terrestrial planets orbiting other stars, called exoplanets, were selected because they were the most likely to resemble Venus in terms of their radii, masses, densities, the shapes of their orbits and distances from their stars. Despite being such a scorching wasteland, however, the planet is often referred to as Earth’s sister because of similarities in size, mass, density and volume.

Image depicts divergent evolutionary pathways of Earth and Venus after formation. Credit: O'Rourke, J.G., Wilson, C.F., Borrelli, M.E. et al.

“It could be that one or the other evolved in an unusual way, but it’s hard to answer that when we only have two planets to analyze in our solar system, Venus and Earth. “The large number of Venus analogs identified in our paper will allow us to test if such volcanic activity is the norm amongst similar planets, or not,” said Kane, who co-authored the study. ‘To confirm this, we want to look at the coolest of the planets in the outer edge of the Venus zone, where they get less energy from their stars.” “The planet just can’t get rid of it.” “We want to find planets that still have significant atmospheres.” Using the Webb telescope to observe these possible Venus analogs, or “exoVenuses,” scientists hope to learn if things were ever different for our Venus.

A group of scientists from the University of Seville, in collaboration with experts from the University of the Basque Country, has led the first detailed ...

It also happens on the Saturn moon Titan and on many exoplanets, but after more than half a century o research we still cannot satisfactorily explain it," explains this researcher. [Editors](https://sciencex.com/help/editorial-team/) have highlighted the following attributes while ensuring the content's credibility: And if the winds grow much more slowly with height, the discontinuity takes longer to find atmospheric regions as fast as itself, allowing it to propagate to higher altitudes. In general, regions where winds have the same speed as a wave act as a physical "barrier" for the propagation of that wave. The astrophysicist Javier Peralta was responsible for designing in 2022 the strategy for WISPR's Venus observations during the spacecraft's approach/departure maneuvers during Parker's flybys. "This is surprising, because until now the discontinuity appeared 'trapped' in the deepest clouds and we had never observed it at such a

EnVision, a mission led by the European Space Agency (ESA) in partnership with NASA, will determine how and why Earth's closest neighbour, Venus, ...

The EnVision spacecraft is estimated to take around 15 months to reach its science orbit - a quasi-polar with an altitude of between 220 km and 540 km. The spacecraft will use a suite of innovative instruments to tackle these big questions about our nearest planetary neighbour. The mission will also determine how Venus' atmosphere and climate are shaped by geological processes.

A.1. Geometrical projections of discontinuity events during 2022. This Supporting Figure displays the same examples of discontinuity as in Figure 1 but as ...

Ultraviolet images during 13-14 June 2022 suggest that the discontinuity may have manifested at the top of the clouds during ∼21 hours as a result of an altitude change in the critical level for this wave due to slower zonal winds. Taking advantage of the campaign of ground-based observations undertaken in coordination with the Akatsuki mission since December 2021 until July 2022, we aimed to undertake the longest uninterrupted monitoring of the cloud discontinuity up to date to obtain a pioneering long-term characterization of its main properties and better constrain its recurrence and lifetime. The discontinuity exhibited properties nearly identical to measurements in 2016 and 2020, with an orientation of 91∘±8∘, length/width of 4100±800 / 500±100 km and a rotation period of 5.11±0.09 days. Because winds gradually increase with height on Venus and have higher speeds than the discontinuity at the peak of the clouds, the discontinuity attempts to propagate upwards from the deep clouds, but meets this obstacle on its way and eventually dissipates. And if the winds grow much more slowly with height, the discontinuity takes longer to find atmospheric regions as fast as itself, allowing it to propagate to higher altitudes. It also happens on the Saturn moon Titan and on many exoplanets, but after more than half a century o research we still cannot satisfactorily explain it,” explains this researcher. “This is surprising, because until now the discontinuity appeared ‘trapped’ in the deepest clouds and we had never observed it at such a high altitude,” explains Peralta. In this vein, the Akatsuki images not only point to the fact that the discontinuity may have propagated to Venus’ upper clouds, but also help us to understand the reasons for this displacement. Hundreds of images were inspected in search of manifestations of the discontinuity events and to measure key properties like its dimensions, orientation or rotation period. The astrophysicist Javier Peralta was responsible for designing in 2022 the strategy for WISPR’s Venus observations during the spacecraft’s approach/departure manoeuvres during Parker’s flybys. “Measuring the winds on Venus is essential to try to explain why Venus’s atmosphere spins 60 times faster than the surface. The observations were carried out non-stop for more than 100 days.

Yesterday was a magical night for selenophiles when the moon and Venus shone brightly together during a rare conjunction.

In effect they would be along the same line of sight (but still far away from each other). [Venus](https://www.indiatimes.com/trending/environment/nasa-shares-pic-of-rare-transit-between-sun-venus-573361.html) and Moon will be involved in an event known as conjunction when they would "appear" to come very close to each other to an observer from planet. Today Venus and Moon will be involved in an event known as conjunction when they would "appear" to come very close to each other to an observer from planet 🌍. The celestial bodies were visible in the same line of sight, staying close together until Venus gradually receded behind the Moon. A day before, NASA’s official Twitter account also tweeted, "Look westward to find the Moon as a beautiful, slim crescent this evening after sunset, hanging just below blazing-bright Venus. Yesterday was one such magical night when the moon and Venus shone brightly together during a rare conjunction.

The astrophysicist Javier Peralta was responsible for designing in 2022 the strategy for WISPR's Venus observations during the spacecraft's approach/departure ...

Because winds gradually increase with height on Venus and have higher speeds than the discontinuity at the peak of the clouds, the discontinuity attempts to propagate upwards from the deep clouds, but meets this obstacle on its way and eventually dissipates. [University of Seville](https://www.us.es/), in collaboration with experts from the University of the Basque Country, has led the first detailed study of the evolution of the discontinuity of Venus’s clouds, a gigantic atmosphere wave with the appearance of a “tsunami” that is propagated in the planet’s deepest clouds and which, it is believed, may be playing a very significant role in the acceleration of Venus’s fast-moving atmosphere. “This is surprising, because until now the discontinuity appeared ‘trapped’ in the deepest clouds and we had never observed it at such a high altitude,” explains Peralta.

The Venus and moon conjunction was also spotted in other countries, including Thailand and Kuwait.

so that you can locate and observe them," said the Facebook post on Saturday morning. "We describe the phenomenon as a conjunction when planetary or astronomical objects appear close together. "The ... On Friday, the Moon will be above Venus. Advertisement "You do not need to travel to any particular location just to observe them.