SPACE FACTS: DAY 177/365🧪🛰️🔭 On Venus, a sidereal day is longer than its year! Venus not only rotates very slowly, but it also rotates in the opposite direction of the other planets (retrograde), probably due to its thick atmosphere.

Yeah, ya lost me after that last comma.

Why does the atmosphere make it turn in retrograde?

SPACE FACTS: DAY 178/365🧪🛰️🔭 Plasma is the least common of the primary states of matter (solid/liquid/gas/plasma—composed primarily of charged particles) in every day life, but it's actually the most common astronomically speaking. Roughly 99% of baryonic matter in the universe is plasma!