Our universe is a fascinating place and it is always
fun to fill up on new and interesting facts that you probably didn’t know
before. Check it out!
25. The sun makes up 99% of the mass of the solar system.
24. There is a planet called HD189733b where it
rains glass sideways.
23. It takes a photon, on average, 170,000 years to
travel from the core of the sun to the surface.
22. Then it takes just 8 minutes from the sun’s
surface to your eyes.
21. Far beyond Neptune, there may be an object the
size of Earth orbiting the sun (look up Oort cloud).
20. There’s a gas cloud in the constellation of
Aquila that contains enough alcohol to make 400 trillion trillion pints of
beer.
19. Dung beetles can use the Milky Way to navigate.
18. 33 light years away there is an exoplanet
completely covered in burning ice.
17. If you could compress the Earth down to the size
of a marble it would collapse on itself and become a black hole.
16. About 275 million new stars are born everyday.
15. Olympus Mons, the largest mountain in the
universe can be found on Mars. It is 3 times the height of Everest and it
basically sticks out of Mars’s atmosphere.
14. Its also so wide that if you were standing on
the edge of its caldera, the base of the volcano would be over the horizon.
13. The Milky Way has four spiral arms, not two.
12. According to researchers, the center of our galaxy
tastes like raspberries and smells like rum.
11. According to astronauts, space smells like
seared steak, hot metal, and welding fumes.
10. Earth’s rotation is slowing at a rate of about
17 milliseconds a century.
9. A day on venus is longer than a year.
8. If you cry in space the tears just stick to your
face
7. There is a diamond floating in our galaxy that
is bigger than Earth
6. One spoonful of matter from a neuron star would
weigh about a billion tons
5. The Voyager 1 is space craft is the furthest man
made object from earth
4. Also the Voyager 1 recently captured the
most distant picture of Earth ever recorded
3. Earth has over 8,000 pieces of space junk
orbiting around it
2. Each year the moon moves 3.8 cm further from
Earth
No comments:
Post a Comment