The planet probably gets her name because she is so very bright and beautiful! Venus is in-taking, rather than out-going (as represented by Mars), and rules the signs Libra and Taurus. Venus, or the Greek Aphrodite, is the Goddess of love, beauty, and relationship. Venus is the only planet in the Solar System named after a female figure, since Ceres and Eris are dwarf planets. Her dense atmosphere creates a greenhouse affect, consequently raising temperatures hot enough to melt lead! At one time Venus had voluptuous amounts of water on her surface, but that has long since boiled away, and has been replaced with steamy hot lava flows and gently rolling plains. She is also sometimes called Earth's "sister planet", for the two are similar in size, gravity, and bulk composition. Venus reaches its maximum brightness shortly before sunrise or shortly after sunset, for which reason it is often called the Morning Star or the Evening Star. Lovely Venus is the second-closest planet to the Sun, and is the brightest natural object in the night sky, except for the Moon.
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