Depends on where you are when you're looking.
The brightest planet in earth's skies is usually Venus, but it is never high in the sky at midnight, so the brightest in the middle of the night is Jupiter.
But if you were on one of Uranus's moons, on the side away from Uranus, then Saturn would be the brightest (though the sun would be the brightest "star" in the sky).
And if you were on one of Mars' moons, on the side away from Mars then Jupiter is brightest when that planet is in the sky, and Earth is brightest when that planet is in the sky.
2007-02-03 15:32:49
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answered by Anonymous
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The brightness of an merchandise interior the sky relies upon on many stuff: how enormous it, how some distance away it is, and how plenty gentle it emits or reflects. It occurs that countless the planets mirror sufficient image voltaic that they seem brighter than the celebs interior the sky using fact the celebs are plenty extra desirable away. in reality, the brightness of a superstar is inversely proportionate the the sq. of the gap away it is. So if the sunlight have been two times as some distance away, it would seem to be 4x dimmer than it is to us now! on condition that the closest stars are thousands of thousands situations extra desirable away, the celebs seem tens of millions situations dimmer than the sunlight so the planets seem brighter.
2016-12-13 08:19:51
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answered by ? 4
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Do you mean brightest as in most reflective or brightest for actual amount of sunlight reflected? I would guess Venus in either case.
2007-02-03 15:08:37
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answered by Zefram 2
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Looking from Earth it's Venus.
2007-02-03 15:17:06
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answered by ? 5
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Venus, if you are in the Earth.
The brightness level is near -5.
2007-02-03 15:12:11
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answered by Lost. at. Sea. 7
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Its Venus, trust me i'm a professional Astronomer, whats more LindaJune's avatar is damn hot!!! and her answer is as hot as she is....
2007-02-03 15:45:39
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answered by RobLough 3
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those who dont know astronomy say venus, but in reflective value its jupiter
2007-02-03 15:38:08
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answered by darkpheonix262 4
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venus the evening star....
2007-02-03 15:12:15
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answered by theoldbgee 2
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