what is the bright object (not the moon!) visible in the evening sky in the British Isles at present?

Answer 1

venus.

Answer 2

It's the planet Venus. It's the brightest object apart from the sun and moon. The ancients named this after the Greek goddess of love and peace, due to its beautiful pure-white appearance in the evening sky.

Venus will appear very close to the crescent moon this evening (20 April.) It will stay with us for another couple of months, but it will appear to get closer & closer to the sun and therefore set earlier and earlier. It will also get even brighter as it approaches the Earth in its orbit. It will then pass planet Earth (its orbit is faster than Earth's) and will reappear on the other side of the Sun, rising in the early hours this summer just before sunrise.

Answer 3

Venus. It's the third brightest thing in the sky at any time, after the Sun and the Moon.

Answer 4

The planet Venus.

Answer 5

Venus is the really bright star in the west at sunset. It sets before midnight. It will be there a few more months and then its orbit will take in behind the Sun from our point of view on Earth.

Answer 6

Its the planet Venus .. known as the Evening Star.
(However, a planet is not a star. The stars are suns)

Answer 7

Venus, look at it through binoculars, and observe that it shows phases like the moon.

Answer 8

I can just see stars - an exceptionally bright one not far from the moon which I am presuming is Venus?

Answer 9

if the object is near the western horizon when you see it... its venus. then a little further east and south is the star sirius its pretty bright too

Answer 10

Russian Space Station.