Goddess of love and beauty caught between a rock and a bright place

And by beauty we mean 700 °F pressure cooker topped with clouds of boiling sulfuric acid. Nevertheless, Venus is the brightest object in the night sky after the moon and the occasional visiting comet or even rarer nova, and the closest planet to earth. Later today it will make a rare transit between the earth and the sun the likes of which will not happen for another century: [Read more…]