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Venus and Jupiter both have deep atmospheres which reflect the sunshine from our sun. Many astronomical objects are seen just from their reflected sunlight, such as asteroid, comets, moons and planets.

Planets shine by reflecting light from the Sun. So do moons, including our Moon.

Why are you using the past tense? Venus and Jupiter were both still shining when I saw them less than an hour ago!

Venus and Jupiter shined because:

a) The light from the Sun reflected off them.

and

b) The planets in our Solar System orbit the Sun in an ellipse, it just so happened that they were at one of their closest points to the Earth.

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They reflect the sun light, the Venus appears bright because it is closer to the sun than earth, Jupiter shines bright, because, while it is five times further away from the sun than Earth, it is much much bigger than Earth.

But still... both are so dim, that you can see them only when it gets dark.

They reflex the light from the Sun, like Moon.

It is just reflecting the Sun's radiation off of its surface as Earth and the Moon do and that is why we can see this.

reflective cloud coverings, they looked like stars because they were bright....