... Venus Falls Out of the Evening Sky . 3.09.1999 . Orbiting closer to the Sun than planet Earth, bright Venus always appears to be near the Sun's position in our sky and often shines near the horizon in twilight hours. ... Eclipse Over The Mountain . ... Symbiotic Star Bubbles . ... The two stars at the center of this nebula are very different. One is a white dwarf star with a mass similar to our Sun but with a radius as small as our Earth. ... Reflections on NGC 6188 . ... 1999 2000 . ...