title: Evening Star
text: # Evening Star
  
  Evening star may refer to:
  
  ## Astronomy
  
  * The planet Venus when it appears in the west (evening sky), after sunset
     * The ancient Greeks gave it the name Hesperus (latin Vesper)
  * Less commonly, the planet Mercury when it appears in the west (evening sky) after sunset
  
  ## Plants
  
  * Oenothera biennis, a medicinal plant
  * Mentzelia pumila, and other species of Mentzelia
  
  ## Arts and entertainment
  
  * "Song to the Evening Star" ("O du mein holder Abendstern"), an aria from Richard Wagner's 1845 opera Tannhäuser
  * The Evening Star, an engraving of a painting by Sir Thomas Lawrence for The Amulet, 1833 in combination with a poem by Letitia Elizabeth Landon.
  * The Evening Star, an engraving of a painting by John Boaden for The Amulet, 1836, in combination with a poem by Letitia Elizabeth Landon.
  * "Evening Star", a poem by Edgar Allan Poe
  * The Evening Star, a 1996 sequel to the film Terms of Endearment
  * Evening Star (Fripp & Eno album), 1975
  * Evening Star (Joshua Breakstone album), 1988
  * "Evening Star" (Kenny Rogers song), 1984
  * "Evening Star" (Judas Priest song), from their 1978 album Killing Machine
  * "Evening Star", a song from the 1967 album For All the Seasons of Your Mind by Janis Ian
  * "Evening Star", a song from the 2010 album Destroyer of the Void by Blitzen Trapper
  * "Evening Star", a song from the 2003 album Valley of the Damned by DragonForce
  * "Evening Star", a song from the 2011 album The Lay of Thrym by Týr
  * "Evening Star", a song from the 1992 album Death or Glory? by Roy Harper
  * "Evening Star", a song from the 2009 album The Underfall Yard by Big Big Train
  * Evening Star (video game), a 1987 train simulator
  * The Evening Star (Traveller), a 1979 role-playing game supplement for Traveller
  
  ## Other uses
  
  * Evening Star (newspaper), a list of newspapers
  * BR 92220 Evening Star, the last steam locomotive to be built by British Railways
  * British Rail Class 66 no. 66779, the last Class 66 built for the British market. Named in fitting with the last BR steam locomotive built.
  * Exercise Evening Star, the annual demonstration of emergency response to a submarine nuclear accident at Faslane, HMNB Clyde, Argyll, Scotland
  