Why is Venus the easiest planet to see in the sky
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Explanation:
venus is the 3rd brightest object in the sky after sun and moon ,and it is also brightest and shiny then all other stars,and although its orbits are relatively close to sun.,that is the reason why venus is the easiest planet to see in the sky.
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the planet next-inward from Earth in orbit around the sun, Venus is relatively nearby. But its nearness isn’t the only reason Venus is bright. Consider that Mars orbits one step outward from Earth. And Mars waxes and wanes in brightness in our sky. It’s only exceptionally bright around the time Earth passes between Mars and the sun, when the red planet is at its closest to us, which it was earlier this year, around late July.
With Venus, something else is going on. Astronomers use the term albedo to describe how bright a planet is in absolute terms. When sunlight strikes a planet, some of the light is absorbed by the planet’s surface or atmosphere – and some is reflected. Albedo is a comparison between how much light strikes an object – and how much is reflected.
As you might have guessed, Venus has the highest albedo of any major planet in our solar system.