Venus is a celestial object.
A planet is an astronomical body orbiting a star or stellar remnant that Although eight of the planetary bodies discovered before 1950 remain `` planets '' under the modern definition , some celestial bodies , such as Ceres , Pallas , Juno and Vesta ( each an object in the solar asteroid belt ) , and Pluto ( the first trans-Neptunian object discovered ) , that were once considered planets by the scientific community , are no longer viewed as such . Venus is the second planet from the Sun , orbiting it every 224.7 Earth days .