... A Very Large Array of Radio Telescopes . ... Venus on the Horizon . ... Besides the sun and moon, Venus is the brightest object visible in Earth's sky. ... This nebula, known as N159, spans over 150 light-years and is located in the neighboring Large Magellanic Cloud galaxy, about 170,000 light years distant. ... If the glow appears as a faint band of light running across the whole sky, you are probably seeing the combined light from the billions of stars that compose our Milky Way Galaxy. ...