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Show The Evening "Star." Towards the southwest, after sunset, look for Venus, the brightest bright-est luminary in the heavens now. save only the moon and the sun, a brilliant, intriguing point of brightness apparently hanging , in the cold, dark recesses oi space. This planet, or "wanderer," is not a star. All stars are suns, like our own, but so vastly distant that the brightest of them all, Sirius, the Great Dog Star, sends only one-fifteenth one-fifteenth as much light to the earth as does Venus at its peak of brilliance, late in December. Venus, and the other planets, only reflect the light of the sun. Astronomers speculate about Venus. Ve-nus. Even with the aid of our modern mod-ern telescopes tihe conditions on its surface are irnknown:. Clouab of dust or vapor ccreen the boay from cur prying instruments. Whether Whe-ther it revolves on its axis, like the Earth, or continually prersents the sprne side to the sun's heat, nobody no-body knows. This is important, foT upon this answer depends the probability of life, as we know1 it. Venus is about the same size as the Earth. Look at it that's how our globe appears if there are intelligent in-telligent beings speculating Earthward. |