EXPLAINER: What are Snapchat Planets, Order of Arrangement, and Significance?

Snapchat has quickly spread like wildfire over the last few years, gaining the interest of millions of users worldwide. Like many other social media platforms, it possesses unique features that attract users and keep them coming back. One such feature is the Snapchat Friend Solar System, otherwise known as Snapchat Planets.

Snapchat Planets is a relatively new feature recently added to the social media app. It is hoped that the feature will create more excitement and pleasure among users, especially those within the age bracket commonly referred to as Gen Z.

However, while this is already gaining traction, it sparks curiosity in many who do not fully understand what it means or its significance. Suppose you have not fully understood what the newly introduced Snapchat Planet entails. In that case, this article will help you know what Snapchat Planets are, their order, meanings and how you can view the Snapchat solar system for your friends.

Snapchat Planets: What Is the Friend Solar System?

Snapchat Planets is one of the latest additions to the upgraded Snapchat social media app. As the name implies, it is designed to operate like the natural solar system, where every planet revolves around the Sun and is separated by a certain distance. However, this feature is only available to Premium subscribers on the app.

It has Mercury as the first planet on its solar system and this represents your best friend on Snapchat.

According to the default design of Snapchat’s Friend Solar System, your best friend is determined by how many streaks you share with each of your friends on the messaging App. Therefore, your best friend is the person you share the most streaks with or interact with and that person is your Mercury.

The exact process applies to your next eight best friends on Snapchat, meaning your top eight best friends are assigned a planet based on how close you are to them (how much you interact with them).

If you are a Snapchat Plus user, you can utilise its new exciting feature by assigning planets to your close friends while you serve as the Sun of your Friend’s Solar System.

Prior to its unveiling, Snapchat Plus, the messaging app’s paid plan, had already been considered well-packed based on its unique and exciting features which elevate the experience with regular upgrades, adding new features and allowing paid users (premium subscribers) to change the app’s icon, view who rewatched their story and mark specific friends as BFFs.

Snapchat Planets Order and Meaning (2024)

The order of arrangement of the planets in Snapchat’s friend solar system is synonymous with that which is obtainable in our existing solar system. It begins with Mercury, assigned to the friend with whom you share the most snaps and chats.

As the Sun of your Snapchat friend solar system, Venus comes second as the closest one and the list continues down until Neptune, your eighth best friend.

Below is a detailed explanation of the Snapchat planets, along with their corresponding emojis:

Mercury

Mercury represents your first closest friend, just as it is the closest planet to the Sun, which you describe. Its signature is a red planet with four five red hearts around it.

Venus

Venus represents your second closest friend, just as it comes second in the order of planets in the actual solar system. Venus’ signature is a light, brown-coloured planet with yellow, pink and blue hearts revolving around it.

Earth

Earth is the third planet in both Snapchat and nature’s solar systems. It represents your third best friend and is known for its unique colour, which is precisely what the real Earth is known for. A moon, stars, and red hearts can also be seen around the planet.

Mars

In the same order, Mars represents your fourth closest friend on Snapchat and is the fourth planet in the solar system. It is symbolised by a red planet with stars and purple and blue hearts around their friendmoji.

Jupiter

Jupiter represents your fifth closest friend and is identified with a reddish-orange planet with dark orange strips and stars revolving around it.

Saturn

Known as the orange planet with a ring and stars, Saturn is the sixth planet in both solar systems and represents your sixth closest friend.

Uranus

Uranus represents your seventh closest friend on Snapchat and is represented by a green planet with no hearts.

Neptune

Devoid of love and life, Neptune, often regarded as lonely or the “Blue Planet” (in tandem with its physical identity is the eighth and last planet in the natural solar system. It represents your eighth closest friend in Snapchat’s Solar System.

How Does Snapchat’s Friend Solar System Work

Snapchat’s Friend Solar System is a relatively new feature of the messaging app. It adds to the fun and exciting experience intended for the app’s users. However, one thing is crucial: You must be subscribed to Snapchat Plus to access and enjoy this new, unique feature.

As a paid user, you will see a “Best Friends” or “Friends” badge with a gold outline whenever you open a friend’s profile (supposedly another paid user). While the Best Friends badge means you are in each other’s top eight best friends, the Friends badge means that you are in their top eight best friends list, but they are not in yours.

Also, tapping on either of the badges will reveal the friendship position on the Friend Solar System. Here is how you can check which planet you are on your friend’s Snapchat solar system:

• Open your friend’s profile on Snapchat.
• Locate and tap the Best Friends badge to reveal which planet you represent.

To have a practical experience, you may need to subscribe to Snapchat Plus so as not to be left behind on the fun of this exciting feature on the messaging App. We understand how consequential it can be when it feels like you are not where your contemporaries are and have provided this simple explainer. We hope it helps! We hope you enjoy your time with friends online!