Venus has phases

When Galileo studied it through his telescopes, he saw that it passed through phases like the Moon. He discovered that Venus was a spherical body lit by sunlight. It grew and shrank in size as it came towards and went away, each time it passed Earth on its orbit round the Sun. The amount of sun-lit surface seen from Earth varied with Its changing angle to the Sun.

Galileo discovered that Venus: reflects sunlight like the Moon has surface features like Earth shines like a star is a bright wandering star
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