It was remarkably distant—68 times as far from the sun as Earth ... and noticed something weird was going on. Unlike the eight known planets, whose orbits are approximately circular and are ...

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 ...

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.