Planet Venus Information

Today in Astronomy History
courtesy of astroplanet.info

January 27, 1908
Philibert Melotte discovers the Jovian (Jupiter) Moon, Pasiphae.

January 27, 1967
Crew of Apollo One were kill by a fire during a Training exercise. Killed were "Gus" Grissom, Edward White II, Roger Chaffee.

January 27, 1967
The Outer Space Treaty is signed and goes into effect October 10, 1967.

Welcome to Planet Venus Information
A website about the planet Venus

Named for the goddess of love, Venus is frequently placed as the morning or evening star. This hot twin of Earth is the second planet from the Sun.

Being an inner planet, that is within Earth orbit, it never appears very far away from the Sun, so learning when the optimal times when Venus is furthest away from the Sun, it ket to observing Venus. In this website we calculate those times known as "Elongations."