- Venus is the planet which takes more time to complete one rotation than its revolution.
- Venus takes 243 earth days to complete one rotation and 7 earth days to complete one revolution.
- Comets can spend hundreds and thousands of years out in the depths of the solar system before they return to Sun at their perihelion.
- Uranus is a real oddball in our solar system. Its spin is tilted by a whopping 98 , meaning it essentially spins on its side.
- The sunspots cause Aurora borealis and Aurora australis, magnetic storms on the surface of the sun and polar auroras.
- ‘Eris’ is the largest dwarf planet in the solar system, has a diameter between 2,400 and 3,000 km and 27% more massive than Pluto.
- The “Galactic year”, also known as a cosmic year, is the duration of time required for the sun to orbit once around the center of the Milky Way Galaxy.
- Jupiter is the fastest spinning in our solar system rotating on average once in just below 10 hours.
- The planet ‘Jupiter’ has a mass that is greater than the combined masses of all the planets of the solar system.
- There are three sides of the moon that are visible to us on earth: the near side of the moon, the western far side and the eastern far side.