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  1. Orbit of Venus - Wikipedia

    Venus has an orbit with a semi-major axis of 0.723 au (108,200,000 km; 67,200,000 mi), and an eccentricity of 0.007. [1][2] The low eccentricity and comparatively small size of its orbit give Venus …

  2. Venus Facts - NASA Science

    Apr 21, 2025 · Venus is the third brightest object in the sky after the Sun and Moon. Venus spins slowly in the opposite direction from most planets. Venus is similar in structure and size to Earth, and is …

  3. Venus | Facts, Color, Rotation, Temperature, Size, & Surface - Britannica

    6 days ago · Because Venus’s orbit is nearer the Sun than Earth’s, the planet is always roughly in the same direction in the sky as the Sun and can be seen only in the hours near sunrise or sunset.

  4. Venus: Size, distance from the Sun, orbit | Astronomy.com

    Oct 20, 2023 · Venus possesses a diameter of approximately 7,521 miles (12,104 kilometers), orbits the Sun at an average distance of 67 million miles (108 million kilometers) with a period of 225 Earth …

  5. Venus orbit - University of Oregon

    Venus, represented as a red dot, revolves about the center of the small circle once every 0.615 years. After the point of closest approach, I have changed the red dot to a blue dot for clarity.

  6. Orbit of Venus - Wikiwand

    In this current era, the nearest that Venus comes to Earth is just under 40 million km. Because the range of heliocentric distances is greater for the Earth than for Venus, the closest approaches come near …

  7. Venus - Astrodienst Astrowiki

    Its average distance from the Sun is 108.21 million km and takes just over 224 days to make one complete orbit around the Sun (sidereal orbit) and 10 to 12 months to go through the whole zodiac.

  8. Venus - Canadian Space Agency

    One day on Venus – the time it takes the planet to complete a full rotation on its axis – is equal to 243 days on Earth. That is actually …

  9. Venus, backwards rotation and orbital period - BIRA-IASB

    Venus rotates around the sun in an elliptic orbit that is the most circular of any of the planets. The difference between its aphelion and its perihelion is only 1.5 million kilometres, which means its …

  10. Venus • Atlas of Space

    After missing its first Venus orbital insertion attempt in 2010, Akatsuki successfully entered orbit around Venus on December 7, 2015, …