Venus will be at its highest point Sunday in excellent view for those on the Earth’s western hemisphere.
The planet is known to NASA as Earth’s twin due to its size and density, but also the hottest planet of the entire solar system. Its surface is hot enough to melt lead. Sunday evening it will be 45 degrees to the east of the sun, which is its greatest angular distance.
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NASA will soon learn more about how the planet came to be the “hellish” world it is today via its DAVINCI mission in the late 2020’s. The mission’s acronym stands for Deep Atmosphere Venus Investigation of Noble gases, Chemistry, and Imaging, and will gather “unprecedented detail from near the top of the clouds to the planet’s surface” according to its website.
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The new position of Venus comes after Saturday’s Strawberry moon, where the moon hit its lowest point in the sky and produced a warmer light for the northern hemisphere. A Strawberry moon appears approximately every six months.
Venus enters this position about every 1.6 years.
