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:
- Why is Venus so bright compared to other planets
- How Venus appears from the Earth, its phases and the 584 day cycle
- Terraforming Venus so that humans could live and work there.
- Could humans live in the Venusian atmosphere? And why would they want to?
- The Transit of Venus
Explaining Science 
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Very generous! Thank you! Do you have any plans for a similar book about Mars or the various dwarf planets?
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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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Thank you! I hope you enjoy the book
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Thank you! 😀 … I downloaded the PDF … I had a quick skim and will look forward to digging in to it. 😀
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Thanks,
That would be definitely less clunky. I will investigate
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Quick tip – use http://www.booklinker.net to get a universal link to your book on Amazon, automatically redirecting to the appropriate international Amazon store.
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Awesome! Venus is my favorite planet, and I can’t argue with a price of free!
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Thanks, Yes I’ve put it up for a pretty good price
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