About Venus
Venus is an epic planet. It completes an orbit every 224.7 days and swings within 0.718 AU of the Sun at perihelion.
It travels the Solar System entirely alone — not a single natural satellite.
Epic planet 60 EP
Venus
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Live ephemeris
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Score breakdown
· 3 badgesEpic 78 pts → Anomaly
- Major planet +40
- Thick atmosphere +12
- Has a proper name +8
Total score 60
18 more points to reach Anomaly.
Badges
- Major planet · +40
- Has a proper name · +8
- Thick atmosphere · +12
Trivia
What it actually is
- No moons. It travels the Solar System entirely alone — not a single natural satellite.
Sense of scale
- Against Earth. It is only 95% of Earth's width — you could pack about 1.2 of it inside our planet.
- Ground to cover. Its whole surface adds up to about 460.3 million km² — roughly 3.1 times Earth's dry land.
- Walk around it. Walking right round its equator, eight hours a day, would take about 2.6 years.
Standing on it
- Heavy air. A thick atmosphere presses down on the surface — the sky here is anything but empty.
By the numbers
- Size. About 12.1 thousand km across.
What's in a name
- Named. Notable enough to have earned a proper name, not just a catalogue number.
Properties
- aphelion au
- 0.7282
- color
- #d9b88a
- diameter km
- 12104
- eccentricity
- 0.0068
- inclination
- 3.395
- name
- Venus
- named
- yes
- num moons
- 0
- orbital period days
- 224.701
- perihelion au
- 0.7184
- radius km
- 6052
- semi major au
- 0.7233
- thick atmosphere
- yes
How to see it
Like any astronomical target, Venus is best seen from a dark site away from city lights, and when it is above the horizon depends on your latitude and the time of year. Because it moves against the background stars, the live position panel on this page tracks where it is right now. The visibility panel above works out tonight's viewing window for your saved location.
Why Venus is an epic planet
Venus scores 60 points on Spacedle's rarity scale, which places it in the epic tier. Another 18 points would lift it into a rarer tier.
That score comes from 3 science badges — Major planet, Has a proper name and Thick atmosphere — each earned for a real, measurable property of the object. Rarity on Spacedle is never random: the more remarkable an object's astrophysics, the more badges it collects, the higher it scores, and the rarer it ranks.