This feature visualizes your closest friends as planets in a solar system, with you as the Sun. The planets, from Mercury to Neptune, represent your top eight ... follow the order of the actual ...

Our home, planet Earth, is part of a system of bodies that orbit a central star – the Sun. This solar system ... Our solar system contains a central star with eight planets, dwarf planets ...

It will appear to follow the sun in the intervening eight months, so we'll see it just after sunset. This happens because Venus is an inferior planet—it orbits closer to the sun than Earth.