Named after the goddess of love in Roman mythology, Venus is the hottest planet in our solar system, with an average temperature around 867 degrees Fahrenheit (464 degrees Celsius).
Although Mercury is closest to the Sun, Venus, which orbits the Sun from an average distance of 67 million miles (108 million kilometers), is the hottest, due to the strong greenhouse effect of a thick carbon dioxide atmosphere.
It takes sunlight about six minutes to travel from the Sun to Venus. To put this in perspective, here on Earth when we see the Sun rise in the morning, it has actually already been above the horizon for 8 minutes, and when we see the sun set, it had already dipped below the horizon 8 minutes before! We are looking at light that left the Sun, 93 miles away from Earth, 8 minutes earlier.