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Evening Star
Another name for Venus because it outshines all of the other stars and planets in the night sky.
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evening star
the planet Venus when it appears in the evening sky
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evening star: Any planet visible in the sky just after sunset.
event horizon: The boundary of the region of a black hole from which no radiation may escape. No event that occurs within the event horizon is visible to a distant observer.

evening star
A planet seen in western sky after sunset, especially Venus
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Evening Star - or morning star, planet that becomes visible in the western sky shortly after sunset or in the eastern sky shortly before sunrise.

Morning and Evening Stars
A planet visible in the Morning shortly before sunrise is a morning star, a planet visible just before sunset is the Evening Star.
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Venus is called the Evening Star. It is called this because it looks so bright to us from Earth.

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In October 1604, a bright new evening star (SN 1604) appeared, but Kepler did not believe the rumors until he saw it himself. Kepler began systematically observing the star.

Several cultures historically held its appearances as a morning and evening star to be those of two separate bodies.

Then Venus as the evening star, the evil chief of the underworld
The Chumash believed in supernatural forces and beings and they believed that humans could influence those forces for good or for evil.

The planet is called the morning star when it appears in the east at sunrise, and the evening star when it is in the west at sunset. In ancient times the evening star was called Hesperus and the morning star Phosphorus or Lucifer.

Venus is also known as the "__________________________ star" or the "evening star" since it is visible and quite bright at either dawn or dusk.

Venus is also known as the "morning star" or the "evening star" since it is visible and quite bright at either dawn or dusk. It is only visible at dawn or dusk since it is closer to the Sun than we are.

(Note that here in our lesson Sirius is an evening star because we are studying it in February.) The flooding of the Nile was an important event for farmers in the region and the Ancient Egyptians computed a very accurate calendar based upon the ...

Mercury and Venus peak as "evening stars" at their greatest eastern elongations, and as "morning stars" during their greatest western elongation.

Cooper, H. S. F. The Evening Star: Venus Observed. Magellan, 1994.
Hunten, D. M. and Matthews, M. S. (Eds.). Tucson, AZ: University of Arizona Press, 1983.
Jastrow, R. and Rasool, S. I. (Eds.). The Venus Atmosphere. 1969.

Sometimes (inaccurately) referred to as the "morning star" or the "evening star", it is by far the brightest "star" in the sky. There are several Web sites that show the current position of Venus (and the other planets) in the sky.

He correctly realized that the morning star and the evening star were the same object, the planet Venus.

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Venus, the jewel of the sky, was once know by ancient astronomers as the morning star and evening star. Early astronomers once thought Venus to be two separate bodies.

95 (paperback) Tells how at dawn the planet Venus appears in the east as the morning star and at nightfall it is the evening star in the West. The Maasai call this star Kileken, the orphan boy.

Ishtar -- In Babylonian mythology, goddess of love and war. Ruler of the Moon, as well as the morning and evening stars (alternate names for the planet Venus).
Ithaca -- A Greek island, home of Odysseus.
Jovian -- Of or relating to the planet Jupiter.

First of all, look for Venus at early evening. It's the overwhelmingly brillant "evening star" lording over the western sky. In fact, sharp-eyed people can see Venus even before sunset.

Pythagoras of Samos (fl. 540-510 B.C.) learned on his travels in Egypt and the East to identify the morning and evening stars, to recognize the obliquity of the ecliptic, goras. and to regard the earth as a sphere freely poised in space.

The planet had two Greek names - Apollo when it appeared as a morning star and Hermes when it appeared as an evening star. However, those Greek astronomers were aware that their two names referred to the same Solar System body.

This is because Mercury shines brightly in the early morning, just before the sun rises. It has also been called an evening star for the same reason. Mercury often is visible for a brief period of time just after the Sun sets.

'In Malawi the morning star is Chechichani, a poor housekeeper who allows her husband the moon to go hungry and starve; Puikani, the evening star, is a fine wife who feeds the moon thus bringing him back to life.' ...

They were referred to as "tramp stars," which is our word for "planets." Homer wrote of the morning and evening star (Venus) by two separate names, "Phospheros" and "Hesperos" -- he never knew that they were the same planet.

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Yepun is the name of the fourth 8.2-m Unit Telescope (UT4) of ESO's Very Large Telescope (VLT) at the Paranal Observatory in Chile. In the Mapuche language Yepun is the word for the evening star Venus.
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Because we can see Venus from Earth only just before sunrise or just after sunset, the planet is often called the "morning star" or the "evening star," depending on where it happens to be in its orbit. Figure 9.

the two that do this - in the animation, the Sun is the yellow dot, Mercury is the red dot, and Venus is the bluish dot. The stars have been removed to show the motion clearly). This causes people to sometimes call them the Morning or Evening Stars.

When Venus and/or Mercury are east of the Sun, they will set after sunset so they are called an ``evening star'' even though they are not stars at all.

and we can only see them just before sunrise or just after sunset. During the period that we can see them before sunrise, we call them the "morning stars." It lasts for many days. When we can see them after sunset, we call them the "evening stars." ...

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