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Strange Universe With Bob Berman
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Strange Universe 10/17/21

By Bob Berman
Published October 18, 2021 at 9:22 AM EDT
NASA/JPL-Caltech

After the Moon, Venus is the brightest thing in the night sky. Venus has gotten much brighter since the spring because it’s now fairly close to us; however, a month from now Venus will be brighter, but noticeably lower and soon its wonderful apparition as an evening star will be over.

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