e-book on Venus from Explaining Science

Posted on by Steve Hurley

Updated 7 December 2025

Venus is, the planet closest to the Earth in size and internal composition, and the brightest natural object in the sky after the Sun and the Moon. This completly revised e-book covers most of the main areas about Venus.

  •  Why is it so bright? The 584-day cycle where Venus goes through a full set of phases. Its phases can only be explained by a heliocentric theory and not the geocentric theory, something which was very important to the development of astronomy.
  • Exploration of the Venus by spacecraft revealing a harsh hostile world.
  • The ‘transit of Venus’ .Observations of this were important to the development of astronomy in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries.
  • The latter part of the book is more speculative discusses what humans would need to do to live on Venus. The idea of ‘floating cities’ is discussed and terraforming the entire planet is explored.

To find out more click on A Short Guide to Venus e-book

 

 

Blog Posts

There are a series of Explaining Science posts on Venus. These include:

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Published by Steve Hurley

Hi I am Steve Hurley. I work in the IT industry. I studied for a PhD in astronomy in the 1980s. Outside work my real passion is explaining scientific concepts to a non-scientific audience. My blog (explainingscience.org) covers various scientific topics, but primarily astronomy. It is written in a style that it is easily understandable to the non scientist. Publications and videos For links to my books and videos please visit www.explainingscience.org

10 thoughts on “e-book on Venus from Explaining Science”

    1. Thank you !

      I have two other ebooks both in Kindle format which can be downloaded from Amazon. One is about the Moon and the other is about the Search for extraterrestrial life.

      Both of these books are relatively short. I am planning a much larger book on the likelihood of there being intelligent alien life in our neighborhood of the Universe
      This book will probably be called ‘Are We Alone?’ I should finish it later this year/early 2020 and it be a papareback as well as a ebook

      The Science Geek

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