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Strawberry moon, meteor shower and other celestial events in June 2023 (Original Post) elleng Jun 2023 OP
Venus is evening star. Jupiter is morning star. Tetrachloride Jun 2023 #1
'Originally, the terms "morning star" and "evening star" applied only to the brightest planet of all elleng Jun 2023 #2

Tetrachloride

(8,447 posts)
1. Venus is evening star. Jupiter is morning star.
Sat Jun 3, 2023, 02:11 AM
Jun 2023

currently.

it wasn’t too long ago this past several months that Jupiter was evening star.

elleng

(136,055 posts)
2. 'Originally, the terms "morning star" and "evening star" applied only to the brightest planet of all
Sat Jun 3, 2023, 02:17 AM
Jun 2023

Venus. It is far more dazzling than any of the actual stars in the sky and does not appear to twinkle. Instead, it glows with a steady, silvery light. The fact that Venus was a wandering star soon became obvious to ancient skywatchers, who noticed its shifting back and forth from the early hours of the eastern morning sky to the western sky in the early evening. Nicolas Camille Flammarion, a noted French astronomer in the late 19th and early 20th century, referred to Venus as "The Shepherd's Star." I myself like to refer to Venus as the "night light of the sky." So, one can readily understand the origin of the terms evening and "morning star" if we only considered Venus.

Of course, Venus is not the only wandering "star" in the sky; there are four others that are also visible to the unaided eye (five, if you include Uranus, which is barely perceptible without any optical aid on dark, clear nights). The difference is that, with the possible exception of Jupiter and, on rare occasions, Mars, none of the others stands out in the same manner as Venus. Nonetheless, somewhere in the distant past, "morning star" and "evening star" became plural in order to account for the four other planets.'>>>

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