Venus — planet, shown live in Cosmoscope, a real-time 3D map of the universe.
Earth’s evil twin: nearly the same size, wrapped in a crushing CO₂ atmosphere with sulfuric-acid clouds. It rotates backwards, so slowly that its day outlasts its year.
Cosmoscope puts Venus at its true position in the solar system, computed from JPL-derived ephemeris and updated continuously. Open the live 3D view to see, in real time, how far Venus is from the Sun and from Earth right now, how many minutes or hours light takes to cross that gap, and how fast it is moving along its orbit. Scrub the timeline to place Venus where it was on any past date, or where it will be years from now.