What planet is Venus?

1, Venus is the closest planet to the sun and the closest planet to the earth in the solar system. Venus period of revolution is 224.7 1 Earth Day. In ancient China, Venus was called Taibai Star, and its mass was similar to that of the Earth, so it was generally called the "sister star" of the Earth. Venus's orbit is the closest to a circle among the eight planets, with a minimum eccentricity of only 0.7%.

Venus is close to the moon with naked eyes and is the brightest planet in the sky. Its brightness is generally -3.3 to -4.4, which is 14 times brighter than Sirius, the brightest star except the sun. The difference is that Venus is a planet and Sirius is a star. Venus is like a dazzling diamond, so people in ancient Greece called Venus Aphrodite, and Aphrodite was the goddess of love and beauty in ancient Greece.