At night there is this brightest stars in the night sky I was wondering what star/planet is it?

Question

is it jupiter? mars venus? its like the brightest star in the night sky each night

My location is in melbourne and every night at around 8 and after that star is like the brightest out of all

Answer 1

Hi Zack!

The answer is Venus. It's the only bright object in the western sky in early evening, around 8 p.m. (7 p.m. starting tonight, because Victoria has turned back the clocks for the end of Summer Time).

I'm astounded by the flood of clearly incorrect answers:

Jupiter - the largest planet doesn't rise until almost midnight. You won't see it in the early evening until June.

Mars - Mars is dim right now, and only visible in the early morning sky this month

The "North Star" - Aside from the fact that you never see the north star from anyplace in Australia, Polaris is a mediocre star that most northerners can find only with the help of the pointer stars in the big dipper.

Sirius - The brightest true star, but right now it is high, high up in the northern sky from Melbourne, not low in the west.

Canopus - Nearly overhead.

Alpha Centauri - This is the best of the second-choice answers, but it's now rising in the southeast, not setting in the west.

Answer 2

You are probably seeing Venus setting in the western sky. It is by far, the brightest object in our skies currently. Jupiter is also quite bright, but doesn't rise in your location until after 11 PM.

Aside from those, Sirius, the Dog star, in the constellation Canis Major - Orion's great hunting dog, is high in your northwestern sky at 8:00 p.m. It is the brightest STAR in our skies. You should be able to see the three stars of Orion's belt lower in the sky, below Sirius.

In your hemisphere, you have a priviledge that us northerners don't. You can see Alpha Centauri in your southeastern sky. It should appear fairly bright, and at a distance of 24.9 trillion miles (4.2 light years), it is the closest star to our own solar system.

Answer 3

Could be Jupiter,it is one of the biggest you can see during the night at this time, the other one that you can see big is Venus but during the sunset or sunrise, before or after a few hours.I don't have any program here but there are some programs for the computer that you put your coordenates ,year,date,and hour and give you the position of the planets,comets,stars etc.
If you have a telescope look at it and if it has small dots(like stars but those are the moons)aligned ,no more than 4 and probably you will see 2 or 1, you can be sure it is Jupiter.And if you look at it every day with the telescope you will see the movement of the moons.
cheers

Answer 4

Mars, Jupiter and Venus are planets. One of the brightest stars in the night sky is Vega, in Orion. Annother could be Polaris, the North Star.

Answer 5

It Could Be Sirius, Or Mars. Those Are The Brightest Objects In The Sky

Answer 6

If you see a very bright star to the west now, chasing after the Sun after sunset, that is the planet Venus.

Some other bright stars you might be seeing now, depending on your location, are the stars Sirius, Capella, and Canopus; and the planet Saturn (rising from the southeast in the evening).

To the earlier response, Vega is NOT in Orion, but it is bright and you might see it rising from the Northeast about midnight. Polaris though is not very bright at all.

Answer 7

well, the brightest star there is in the night sky, is Sirius, in the constellation canis major (the larger dog). it is bluish white.

around these months, venus is very prominent in the night sky, and the only thing brighter than it is the MOON. So, what you're seeing could be venus., but it could also be Jupiter..

check www.spaceweather.com

Answer 8

It's Venus

Answer 9

It depends on where you live and the location of the bright planet star.

Answer 10

That be Venus! West Northwest just after sunset.