Amazing Facts About Space:
1)The Earth had the energy to release trapped water from the energy supplied by the collisions that delivered the minerals in the first place.
2)With its faster orbit around the sun, Venus overtakes Earth every 5584 Earth days, changing from an evening star(visible before sunset)to a morning star(visible before sunrise ), and then vice versa.
3)Because Saturn is so far from the sun, the sun would appear 10 times smaller viewed from Saturn than it does from Earth. On from, Earth receives 90 times more sunlight than Saturn.
4) Saturn is named after the Roman god of farming, Saturn, who was also the father of the Roman god Jupiter. The planet's symbol is a sickle, a tool that belonged to the Roman god harvest and was also the weapon Cronos used to castrate and depose his father, Uranus.
5)From the moon, Earth is almost four times the size of a full moon from Earth, and it never moves across the moon's sky.
6)Moondust is said to smell like spent gunpowder.
7)The oldest rocks in the world are four billion years old.
8)Footprints left on the Moon won’t disappear as there is no wind.
9)Because of lower gravity, a person who weighs 220 lbs on Earth would weigh 84 lbs on Mars.
10) 79 known moons are orbiting Jupiter.
11)NASA’s Crater Observation and Sensing Satellite (LCROSS) found evidence of water on the Earth’s Moon.
12)The Sun makes a full rotation once every 25 – 35 days.
13)Earth is the only planet not named after a God.
14)Due to the Sun and Moon’s gravitational pull, we have tides.
15)Pluto is smaller than the United States.
2)With its faster orbit around the sun, Venus overtakes Earth every 5584 Earth days, changing from an evening star(visible before sunset)to a morning star(visible before sunrise ), and then vice versa.
3)Because Saturn is so far from the sun, the sun would appear 10 times smaller viewed from Saturn than it does from Earth. On from, Earth receives 90 times more sunlight than Saturn.
4) Saturn is named after the Roman god of farming, Saturn, who was also the father of the Roman god Jupiter. The planet's symbol is a sickle, a tool that belonged to the Roman god harvest and was also the weapon Cronos used to castrate and depose his father, Uranus.
5)From the moon, Earth is almost four times the size of a full moon from Earth, and it never moves across the moon's sky.
6)Moondust is said to smell like spent gunpowder.
7)The oldest rocks in the world are four billion years old.
8)Footprints left on the Moon won’t disappear as there is no wind.
9)Because of lower gravity, a person who weighs 220 lbs on Earth would weigh 84 lbs on Mars.
10) 79 known moons are orbiting Jupiter.
11)NASA’s Crater Observation and Sensing Satellite (LCROSS) found evidence of water on the Earth’s Moon.
12)The Sun makes a full rotation once every 25 – 35 days.
13)Earth is the only planet not named after a God.
14)Due to the Sun and Moon’s gravitational pull, we have tides.
15)Pluto is smaller than the United States.
Interesting space facts:
- Space does not begin at a specific altitude above the Earth, but the Kármán line at 100 km is a commonly used definition.
- The temperature in the void of space is about −270.45 °C.
- Space is a hard vacuum, meaning it is a void containing very little matter.
- There is no sound in space because molecules are too far apart to transmit sound.
- The space between galaxies is not completely empty but has an average of one atom per cubic meter.
- There are an estimated 100-400 billion stars in our galaxy, the Milky Way.
- The universe is observed to be 13.8 billion years old and has been expanding since its formation in the Big Bang.
- In the observable universe there are an estimated 2 trillion (2,000,000,000,000) galaxies.
- The International Space Station is the largest ever crewed object in space.
- Spacecraft have visited all the known planets in our solar system.
Incredible Facts About Space:
1)Space is completely silent.
2)Mercury & Venus are the only 2 planets in our solar system that have no moons.
3)If a star passes too close to a black hole, it can be torn apart.
4)The hottest planet in our solar system is Venus.
5)Our solar system is 4.57 billion years old.
6)Enceladus, one of Saturn’s smaller moons, reflects 90% of the Sun’s light.
7)The Whirlpool Galaxy (M51) was the first celestial object identified as being spiral.
8)The highest mountain discovered is the Olympus Mons, which is located on Mars.
9)A light-year is the distance covered by light in a single year.
10)The Milky Way galaxy is 105,700 light-years wide.
11)According to mathematics, white holes are possible, although as of yet we have found none.
12)There are more volcanoes on Venus than on any other planet in our solar system.
13)Uranus’ blue glow is due to the gases in its atmosphere.
14)In our solar system that are 4 planets known as gas giants: Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus & Neptune.
15)Uranus has 27 moons that have been discovered so far.
2)Mercury & Venus are the only 2 planets in our solar system that have no moons.
3)If a star passes too close to a black hole, it can be torn apart.
4)The hottest planet in our solar system is Venus.
5)Our solar system is 4.57 billion years old.
6)Enceladus, one of Saturn’s smaller moons, reflects 90% of the Sun’s light.
7)The Whirlpool Galaxy (M51) was the first celestial object identified as being spiral.
8)The highest mountain discovered is the Olympus Mons, which is located on Mars.
9)A light-year is the distance covered by light in a single year.
10)The Milky Way galaxy is 105,700 light-years wide.
11)According to mathematics, white holes are possible, although as of yet we have found none.
12)There are more volcanoes on Venus than on any other planet in our solar system.
13)Uranus’ blue glow is due to the gases in its atmosphere.
14)In our solar system that are 4 planets known as gas giants: Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus & Neptune.
15)Uranus has 27 moons that have been discovered so far.
Scary Space Facts :
1)Pluto’s largest moon, Charon, is half the size of Pluto.
2)The International Space Station is the largest manned object ever sent into space.
3)A day on Pluto lasts for 153.6 hours long.
4)Saturn is the second-largest planet in our solar system.
5)Any free-moving liquid in outer space will form itself into a sphere.
6)It takes eight and a half minutes for light to get from the sun to earth.
7)The Earth orbits the sun at a speed of about 108,000 km per hour.
8)Twelve men have landed on and explored the moon.
9)Some asteroids have other asteroids orbiting them.
10)The sun shrinks five feet every hour.
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