// Planet
Venus
Distance from Earth right now
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calculated live from orbital data (NASA/JPL)
- Distance from Sun
- 0.72 AU (≈ 108 million km)
- Orbital period
- 225 days
- Diameter
- 12,104 km
- Moons
- 0
Venus, with its extremely dense CO₂ atmosphere and resulting greenhouse effect, is the hottest planet in the Solar System — hotter than Mercury despite being farther from the Sun.
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Orbital data: NASA/JPL Horizons. Photos: Wikimedia Commons.