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So you are saying the morning star name is technically wrong? It should be the morning and evening star? Of course star is wrong, too...



Venus is known as either the ‘morning star’ or ‘evening star’ depending on where Venus is in its orbit relative to Earth.

It actually just recently (start of June) went behind the sun; it’s still too close to the sun in the sky to really be visible at all at the moment. As it moves further out from behind the sun it will start being visible in the evening sky in late July right after the sun sets, so it will be the ‘evening star’ again for the next eight months or so before it passes in front of the sun, disappearing from view for a bit, then comes back as the morning star next summer.


It is just so fascinated for me


You'd prefer the more accurate and historic Wandering Star?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Classical_planet




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