There are two stars next to the moon, Venus and Jupiter. Which is brighter?

There are two stars next to the moon, Venus and Jupiter.

Venus is low and Jupiter is high. Venus is very bright because of its proximity and strong atmospheric reflection. Venus can reach -4.4 at its brightest. Jupiter, with its large volume and strong reflective ability, just passed the sun-rushing stage two months ago.

The so-called rush to the sun means that a planet runs in the opposite direction to the sun, and at this time the planet reaches its brightest. Jupiter is also above -2 at its brightest. They are the brightest stars in the sky, brighter than Sirius.

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Venus is an earth-like planet, because its mass is similar to that of the earth, and it is sometimes called the "sister star" of the earth. It is also the only planet in the solar system without a magnetic field. Among the eight planets, Venus' orbit is closest to a circle, and its eccentricity is the smallest, only 0.005438+0 1.

Taking the earth as one of the vertices of the triangle, connecting Venus and the sun respectively, we will find that this angle is very small, even if the maximum is only 48.5, because Venus's orbit is inside the earth's orbit. So when we see Venus, it is either in the morning or at night, on the east and west sides of the sky respectively.