Morning Star
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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 Star
Another name for the planet Venus because it rises about 90 minutes before the Sun.
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morning star
the planet Venus when it appears in the morning sky
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morning star: Any planet visible in the sky just before sunrise.
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morning star
A planet seen in the eastern sky before sunrise, especially Venus
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1st - The Red Morning Star Warrior (probably Mars) and the Evening Star (probably Venus)
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'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.' ...
The Ancient Egyptians believed Venus to be two separate bodies and knew the morning star as Tioumoutiri and the evening star as Ouaiti.
As it does so, it goes from being the 'Evening star', visible after sunset, to being the 'Morning star', visible before sunrise.
The ancient Greeks2 realized that two of the wanderers, Eosphoros ("the morning star") and Hesperos ("the evening star") were really the same body.
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.
The Ancient Egyptians, thousands of years ago, noticed that the annual flooding of the Nile each spring coincided with the arrival of Sirius as a "morning star".
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.
Venus is often referred to as the Morning Star because it orbits closer to the Sun than our planet. This causes Venus to appear in the western sky after the sun sets and rise in the East before the sun breaks the horizon.
This planet is often called a morning star. 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.
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Like Mercury, it was popularly thought to be two separate bodies: Eosphorus as the morning star and Hesperus as the evening star, but the Greek astronomers knew better. (Venus's apparition as the morning star is also sometimes called Lucifer.
He correctly realized that the morning star and the evening star were the same object, the planet Venus.
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.
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.
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.
76 albedo makes Venus the brightest planet, earning it the nickname 'the Morning Star'.
Mercury and Venus peak as "evening stars" at their greatest eastern elongations, and as "morning stars" during their greatest western elongation.
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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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261. 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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Although all planets' orbits are elliptical, Venus's orbit is the closest to circular. It is sometimes referred to as the "Morning Star" or the "Evening Star" and is the brightest object in the sky after the Sun and the Moon.
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.
They just swing from the east of the Sun to the west and back, 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.
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. When either of them is west of the Sun they will rise before sunrise and they are called a ``morning star''.
The Greeks called Venus "Hesperus" when it appeared as the evening star and "Phosphorus" when as morning star it rose before sunrise, though they realized both were the same object.
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