Mercury lost its crown, and isn’t our Solar System’s hottest planet

Big Think ·
Wellness & Longevity United States

In terms of power, the only body of note in the Solar System is the Sun. Planets, in general, reflect, absorb, and re-radiate energy emitted by their parent stars, and the Sun is the only parent star any of the planets have here in our Solar System. To an excellent approximation, the Sun keeps not only Earth, but all the planets at a temperature well above what they’d be without it, which is just…

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