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Our Solar system has 8 planets. Out of them ,Venus the hottest & brightest planet of solar system.Venus is also known as Morning & Evening Star as it reaches its maximum brightness after sunrise & sunset ,hence it is visible from earth.Venus rotates so slowly that its one typical day lasts approximately 244 Earth days (5,856 hours). It has the slowest rotation in solar system
Jupiter is so big that you could fit all the other planets in the solar system inside it.Jupiter is the solar system’s vacuum cleaner, pulling in meteors and comets.Jupiter has the shortest day of all the planets. It is because it has the fastest rotation speed in Solar system

Saturn is the second biggest planet, but it’s also the lightest planet.Its rings are made of many pieces of rocks & ice.It has the greatest number of known moons of any planet in the solar system.It is the furthest planet from Earth that can be seen without the help of a telescope.

A person of 60 kgs weight barely will weigh 10 kg on Moon, but 1,680 kg on the Sun.That means ,you would weigh 1/6th of your weight on Moon & 24 times more on Sun.This happens due to gravitational pull at different places .A full moon is nine times brighter than a half moon.

Neptune is known to be the coldest planet in Solar system.Also do you know Mars is also known as Red planet because of its bright red color.