Naming of the Planets: Venus

As stated in my post before this regarding Mercury, many of the planets were quite viewable by the Romans back in the day when there was not much light pollution, but Venus stood out as one of the brightest and most beautiful stars in the night sky!

Photo of Venus in the visible spectrum

Venus to this day is still one of the more beautiful looking planets in our solar system, at least if you ask me! Though it has a certain deadly quality about it with it's run away green house effect, it has a certain beauty to it that I find mesmerizing so I only find it quite accurate that the Roman's named this gem after the Goddess of beauty!

Little fun fact about Venus, we actually originally thought it was going to be a marsh like planet, and around this time we had this theory you had so many movies about Venus pop out of Hollywood! Of course, after further study we came to realize just how wrong and dangerous of a planet it was, but the one thing it still held onto was it's beauty!

Hope you all are enjoying this little series on the planets names and keep your eyes on the night sky!