Venus is at the farthest distance from the sun.. today

Venus is at the farthest distance from the sun.. today

Experts confirmed astronomy Reach Venus Today, Sunday, December 25, to the farthest point from the sun (apogee) at 02:05 following midnight Mecca time (11:05 pm GMT), where it will be at a distance of 109,206,446 km, during the orbital period that takes 225 days to complete one cycle around the sun.

Astronomers added that the orbit of Venus around the sun is closer to having a circular shape, as the distance varies from the sun by regarding 1.5% only between the aphelion and perihelion points, and this makes the planet’s orbit more circular compared to the rest of the planets in our solar system, and the result is that the planet receives almost the same amount of energy from the sun when it is At perihelion (closest distance from the sun) and aphelion (farthest from the sun).

And astronomers confirmed that Venus is currently being monitored following sunset and moving towards the beginning of the night, as it will appear high above the southwestern horizon as a bright star for the observer with the naked eye, and through the telescope it will be illuminated by 61% by sunlight and will remain above the horizon for regarding an hour, beginning following sunset.

Venus and all the planets revolve around the sun in a counterclockwise direction, and Venus is an inner planet located between the Earth and the sun, so it has a phase like the moon.

The planet Venus passed the far side of the sun (the upper conjunction) on October 22, 2022, to leave the dawn sky and enter the evening sky. During the next month, it will reach its greatest eastern elongation from the sun on June 04, 2023.

The planet Venus will continue to decorate the evening sky for several months to come, until mid-August 2023, when it will pass between the Earth and the Sun (internal conjunction) to leave the evening sky to the dawn sky.

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