On Venus, the Sun rises in the west. Full stop.
On Venus, the Sun rises in the west. Full stop. Venus spins backwards compared to almost every other planet in the solar system, so if you stood on its surface, you'd watch the Sun climb up from the wrong direction entirely. And that's before the calendar gets truly strange. Venus takes around 243 Earth days to complete a single rotation — but it only needs about 225 Earth days to orbit the Sun. That means a day on Venus outlasts its own year. The year ends before the day does. Wrap your head around that. Oh, and stepping outside to check the sunrise? Not an option. The surface sits at around 465 °C — hotter than Mercury, despite being further from the Sun. Venus is deeply, quietly wrong in the best possible way. Follow Deep Field Vault for more of the solar system's strangest secrets.