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Discover how NASA's October 29 Astronomy Picture of the Day shows Venus as a thin glowing crescent, not the Moon. Learn why Venus, seen almost directly between Earth and the Sun, shows phases like the Moon, why its thick atmosphere bends and scatters sunlight so the crescent arc stretches beyond 180 degrees, and why the long tips of that arc are called the horns of Venus. See why this alignment returns about every year and a half, and how a small telescope or binoculars at twilight can reveal it.
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