If choosing a peanut oil substitute for deep frying, choose a cooking oil with a higher smoke point. The smoke point marks the temperature at which an oil begins smoking and decomposing. Corn oil, canola oil, soybean oil, sunflower oil and safflower oil all have higher smoke points than peanut oil.
This certainly is an unusual coincidence for the crescent moon to be right there in the days when they are going to be closest together, said Alan MacRobert, senior editor of Sky and Telescope magazine. The moon is the brightest, closest and smallest of the three and is 252,000 miles away. Venus, the second brightest, closest and smallest, is 94 million miles away, while Jupiter is 540 million miles away.
The brightest planet in the sky, Venus is the closest to Earth. Its shining presence as it hovered near the sun earned it the nickname of both the morning and the evening star, depending on its location within its orbit. Let's take a look at just how far the distance to Venus is.enus isn't the brightest planet in the sky because it is the closest to the sun; Mercury bears that honor. But unlike Mercury, Venus has a thick, cloudy atmosphere that reflects the light better than Mercury's rocky surface (it also keeps the planet piping hot).