Why Does Venus Spin Backwards?
Our Solar System is one of the over 500 known solar systems in the entire Milky Way Galaxy. It is assumed that 4.5 billion years ago, a Solar nebula was born out of a collision of gas and dust and any other matter that was around at that time.
Fortunately, the ingredients needed to create life were also involved, otherwise who else would have studied the Universe and our Solar System?
However, even if we have studied our Solar System for hundreds of years, we still don’t know a fraction about it. There are so many questions that we are still looking for answers. So many things that we don’t know about it yet. That’s the reason why, even nowadays, in some cases all we can do is to guess what really happened in those specific cases.
The same is also true for the case of the “planet next door”. Beside Uranus, which sits sideways on its axes, which literally means that it spins from South to North, Venus is the only planet from our Solar System which it spins clockwise or backwards.
Venus is the second planet from the Sun and it was named after the Roman goddess of love and beauty. Unlike any other planet of our Solar System, it is the only one named after a female, so please don’t ask me why it is so hot. The temperature on Venus are hot enough to melt lead, more exactly 460 degrees Celsius, or 860 degrees Fahrenheit.
