In fact, from Earth, Venus appears to have an eight-year cycle in which it orbits the sun 13 times and waxes and wanes between being a “Morning Star” and “Evening Star” every 19 months ...
Venus, appears to ping back and forth from the Sun’s glare into the post-sunset (called the “Evening Star” phase) or pre-sunrise (called the “Morning Star” phase) night sky. After all ...
Venus is the brilliant evening “star” now shining at magnitude -4 in the southwest ... Follow this gathering overnight until ...