Venus is brighter

Venus is brighter

TOKYO, Japan - Flanked by a crescent, the Venus glimmers (top center) in the western sky over the Rainbow Bridge in Tokyo Bay on the evening of July 15. Shining at magnitude -4.5, the planet is the brightest it has been in the past two years.

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