How can we see the sun and not see some other planets, like Venus despite them being closer to Earth than the sun is?

Question

I tried googling this, but I couldn’t understand what it meant, so can anyone here help me out?

In: Physics

Answer 1

The Sun has a radius 120 times larger than Venus.

The Sun emits a humongous amount of light, Venus only reflects some of the sunlight that falls on it.

Venus is only sometimes closer to the Earth than the Sun, sometimes it is farther away. But it’s mostly the first two.