Why Does Venus Spin Backwards?

The first 200 to sign up at https://brilliant.org/scishowspace/ will get 20% off their annual Premium subscription. We're always learning more about far away galaxies and exoplanets, but we still have some pretty big mysteries hanging out here in the solar system, like why Venus spins the way it does. Hosted by: Reid Reimers For special, curated artifacts of this universe, check out https://scishowfinds.com/ ---------- Support SciShow by becoming a patron on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/scishow ---------- Dooblydoo thanks go to the following Patreon supporters: Lazarus G, Sam Lutfi, Nicholas Smith, D.A. Noe, سلطان الخليفي, Piya Shedden, KatieMarie Magnone, Scott Satovsky Jr, Charles Southerland, Patrick D. Ashmore, Tim Curwick, charles george, Kevin Bealer, Chris Peters ---------- Like SciShow? Want to help support us, and also get things to put on your walls, cover your torso and hold your liquids? Check out our awesome products over at DFTBA Records: http://dftba.com/scishow ---------- Looking for SciShow elsewhere on the internet? Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/scishow Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/scishow Tumblr: http://scishow.tumblr.com Instagram: http://instagram.com/thescishow ---------- Sources: https://www.annualreviews.org/doi/10.1146/annurev.aa.03.090165.002113 https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0012821X08000526 https://www108.lamp.le.ac.uk/ojs1/index.php/pst/article/viewFile/2502/2325 https://www.nature.com/articles/35081000 https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/0019103580901578 http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/1977A%26A....60...85K https://www.annualreviews.org/doi/10.1146/annurev.aa.06.090168.001443 https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/RG002i003p00467 Images: https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/11923 https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/3728 https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/20027 https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/11693 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Venus_structure.jpg https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Maat_Mons_on_Venus.jpg