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Category: Venus

Odds and Ends

March 21, 2023March 20, 2023 catholicfictioncatholicscience1 Comment

Another lovely APOD Jupiter and Venus picture ... The Astronomy Picture Of the Day website has a new glorious picture of Jupiter and Venus together in the sky, along with a telescope, and children being shown this wonder. https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap230315.html ~*~*~*~ I got to thinking about Andrew II of Hungary, again. He seemed to be the [...]

Posted in APOD, Dante, Saint Elizabeth, Venus

Jupiter, Venus, and the ecliptic

March 10, 2023 catholicfictioncatholicscience4 Comments

(The two little crescents in the above picture are the planets Jupiter and Venus. Their shape is an artifact of my camera and blowing up the picture beyond what it can manage.) There are two definitions of the ecliptic that are easy to find. One says that the ecliptic is the plane of the earth's [...]

Posted in APOD, Dante, Venus

Earth’s evil twin?

January 25, 2023 catholicfictioncatholicscienceLeave a comment

I read an article the other day about Venus where it was called Earth's evil twin. In the same article runaway global warming was mentioned as the reason for the incredibly horrible, windy, acidic, hot surface of the planet. Now look at Venus. It has no magnetic field. It has no oceans. It has no [...]

Posted in Uncategorized, Venus
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