 from Ms. Lin's first grade class in Columbia, Missouri. Our question is, how hot is the core of plant Venus? Hello, my name is Anna Fribill and I'm a professor here at MIT. I'm actually an astronomer and I'm going to answer your questions about space. You asked how hot the core of Venus is. That's a very good question and I can tell you it's quite hot. It's probably about 5,000 degrees hot, which is very similar to the Earth. Actually, the crusty part, the rocky part of Venus and Earth are very similar. The major difference between the two plants is the atmosphere. We can breathe in our atmosphere whereas the atmosphere of Venus is pretty toxic. But in terms of how hot it is in the core, pretty hot. I don't recommend going there.