After the Moon, Venus is the brightest thing in the night sky. Nothing else even comes close. No wonder civilizations through the ages, like the Maya, worshiped it.
But Venus is not always there. Sometimes it’s behind the Sun. Sometimes it’s very low in our sky, hidden in twilight behind hills. For nine months at a time it’s only visible in the pre-dawn as a gift for early risers and insomniacs. And nearly all this year, it’s been invisibly lurking behind the Sun.
When it finally does... more
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