V is for Venus #atozchallenge

What is the second brightest object in the sky after the Moon?

Venus orbits the Sun between the planet Mercury and the planet Earth. It is the second brightest object after the Moon in the sky.
Its year is 224.7 days long.

Its atmosphere is 96% carbon dioxide. Its surface temperature 863 degrees F.

Its atmospheric pressure is 92 times greater than the Earth's atmospheric pressure.