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Venus moonlighting as a star, clocking in right after sunset.

means The common name for the planet Venus when it appears low in the western sky shortly after sunset, before it later shifts to being the 'morning star' at dawn.

from Not a word rooted in one single coinage so much as a description reinvented across cultures — ancient skywatchers from Babylon to Greece tracked the same brilliant point of light at dusk and called it by names tied to evening (the Greeks knew it as Hesperos). For centuries many didn't realize the evening star and the morning star were the same body, Venus, until astronomers confirmed it — so the phrase survives as a plain, old description of a sight, not a scientific term.

actual identity
a planet, not a star at all
same object
also called the morning star, just different shift
brightness rank
third brightest sky object after sun and moon
ancient confusion
greeks thought it was two separate gods
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