Skip to main content

Top 20 Amazing Facts About Space You Should Know


Space is mysterious and beautiful, understand it more with this list of 20 interesting facts about space, planets, moons and stars. Enjoy!
1.    Mercury and Venus are the only two planets in our solar system that do not have any moons.
2.    If a star passes too close to a black hole, it can be torn apart.
3.    The hottest planet in our solar system is Venus. Most people often think that it would be Mercury, as it’s the closest planet to the sun. This is because Venus has a lot of gasses in its atmosphere, which causes the “Greenhouse Effect”.
4.    The solar system is around 4.6 billion years old. Scientist estimate that it will probably last another 5000 million years
5.    Enceladus, one of Saturn’s smaller moons, reflects some 90% of the sunlight, making it more reflective than snow!
6.    The highest mountain known to man is the Olympus Mons, which is located on Mars. It’s peak is 15 miles (25KM) high, making it nearly 3 times higher than Mt Everest.
7.    The Whirlpool Galaxy (M51) was the very first celestial object to be identified as being spiral.
8.    A light year is the distance covered by light in a single year, this is equivalent to 5.88 trillion miles (9.5 trillion KM)!
9.    The width of the Milky Way is around 100,000 light years.
10.  The Sun is over 300,000 times larger than Earth.
11.  Footprints and tire tracks left by astronauts on the moon will stay there forever as there is no wind to blow them away.
12.  Because of lower gravity, a person who weighs 100kg on earth would only weigh 38kg on the surface of Mars.
13.  Scientists believe there are 67 moons that orbit Jupiter, however only 53 of these have been named.
14.  The Martian day is 24 hours 39 minutes and 35 seconds.
15.  NASA’s Crater Observation and Sensing Satellite (LCROSS) declared that they have found evidence of significant amounts of water on the Earth’s Moon.
16.  The Sun makes a full rotation once every 25-35 days.
17.  Venus is the only planet that spins backwards relative to the other planets.
18.  The force of gravity can sometimes cause comets to tear apart.
19.  It is thanks to the Sun and our own moons gravity that we have high and low tides.
20.  Pluto is smaller than the Earth’s moon!







Source: thefactsite . com
Categories

Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

Top 10 || Most Difficult Languages to Learn

There are millions of different   languages spoken around the world . And It’s very possible that you speak one of the language mentioned in this article, but other nine languages would certainly be difficult for you. Since this article is written in English, we are primarily focusing on English speakers, but still we tried hard to make this list as diverse as possible. So let’s know about the 10 most difficult languages to learn. 1.    Chinese 2.    Korean 3.    Japanese 4.    Arabic 5.    Russian 6.    Sanskrit 7.    Khoisan 8.    Hungarian 9.    Icelandic 10. Finnish
2 comments
Read more

FINALY BERMUDA TRIANGLE MYSTERY SOLVED...!!

Computer studies of ocean floors around the world, particularly the area known as The Bermuda Triangle, reveal evidence of massive methane explosions in the past. For years, believers in the paranormal, aliens, and other outlandish theories pointed to the the disappearance of ships and aircraft as an indicator of mysterious forces at work in the “Devil’s triangle.” Scientists have finally pointed the rest of us to a more plausible cause. The presence of methane hydrates indicates enormous eruptions of methane bubbles that would swamp a ship, and projected high into the air- take out flying airplanes, as well. Any ships caught within the methane mega-bubble immediately lose all buoyancy and sink to the bottom of the ocean. If the bubbles are big enough and possess a high enough density they can also knock aircraft out of the sky with little or no warning. Aircraft falling victim to these methane bubbles will lose their engines-perhaps igniting the methane surrounding...
Post a Comment
Read more

20 Interesting Facts About Lent

  People can get cranky when they don’t get what they want, especially over the Lenten season. So please, take pity on your C hristian friends during Lent; they’re sacrificing their vices for the betterment of their health. It’s also a “time that the Lord invites us to come back home, come back to the Church,” according to Cardinal Timothy Dolan, the Archbishop of the Archdiocese of New York. Here we’re going to look at 20 interesting facts about Lent! 1.     Lent is the 40 weekdays from Ash Wednesday to Easter observed by the Roman Catholic, Eastern, and some Protestant churches as a period of penitence and fasting. Sundays aren’t included in the 40-day count. 2.     Since Sunday’s aren’t included, Lent technically lasts 46 days. 3.     When Lent started, it was only 36 days. Later, it was changed to 40 days. 4.     Why is Lent 40 days? The number 40 is a significant number for Christians. Jesus spent 40 days...
Post a Comment
Read more

Recommended for you

Archive

Popular post

loading...