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VENUS


Drawings made by Galileo

This is Galileo in September 1609, for the first time, who discovered the phases of Venus, pointing his telescope toward the planet. It thus performs the first drawings of the phases, which clearly show the change in apparent diameter in successive phases. 

This is the same phenomenon alike the Moon phases: Venus, as the Moon, passes between the Sun and Earth.