If you’re in the Northern Hemisphere, look west or northwest 30 minutes after sunset, and it should be immediately visible. It’s the second-brightest object in our night sky after the moon.
“It’s dazzlingly obvious. It doesn’t twinkle like a star but has a steady light that makes it easy to spot,” said Robert Massey, the deputy executive director of the Royal Astronomical Society in the United Kingdom.
Sometimes called the “evening star,” the planet’s reemergence in the night sky has in the past led to an increase in UFO sightings, Massey said, with its low position in the sky just after…