Evening Star

Evening Star is the name given to the planet Venus when it appears in the West (evening sky) after sunset; the ancient Greeks gave it the name Hesperus. It may also refer to:

People

• Arwen, an elf-maiden in J.R.R. Tolkien's writings is also referred to as "Undomiel", elvish for "Evenstar".

Places

• Evening Star (pub) in Brighton, England

Things

• BR 92220 Evening Star, the last steam locomotive to be built by British Railways
• Oenothera biennis, a medicinal plant
• Mentzelia pumila (Velcro Stickleaf) and other species of Mentzelia

Publications

• Luceafărul ("The Evening Star"), a poem by Mihai Eminescu
• "Evening Star", a poem by Edgar Allan Poe

Newspapers

• The Evening Star (Ipswich), a daily newspaper in Ipswich, England, published since 1885
• The Star (Auburn), a daily newspaper in Auburn, Indiana, published since 1913
• The Evening Star (Dunedin), a daily newspaper published in Dunedin, New Zealand, from 1863 – 1979
• The Washington Evening Star, a daily afternoon newspaper published in Washington, D.C. from 1852 to 1981
• The Evening and the Morning Star (1832–1834), the first newspaper of the Latter Day Saint movement
• The Evening Star, a newspaper published in the 1800s in Greenbush-Bath-On-The-Hudson NY [Bath-On-The-Hudson is now known as Rensselaer, NY]

Entertainment

• Evening Star (video game), a 1987 train simulator
• Evening Star (band), a metal band from Costa Rica
• Evening Star (album), by Robert Fripp and Brian Eno
• The Evening Star, a sequel to the film Terms of Endearment
• "Evening Star", a song by the heavy metal band Judas Priest, from their 1978 album Killing Machine
• "Evening Star", a song by power metal band Dragonforce, from their album Valley of the Damned
• "Night Falls ~ Evening Star" a song from the computer series of games known as Touhou

Finance

• Evening star (candlestick pattern), formation in financial candlestick chart. Compare Morning star (candlestick pattern).

See also

• Morning star (disambiguation)
• Evenstar (disambiguation)