Do You Know These facts on the Universe!
- Saturn would float if you would put it in water.
- If you would place a pinhead sized piece of the Sun's core on the Earth you would die from standing within 145 km (90 miles) from it.
- Only 5% of the universe is made up of normal matter, 25% is dark matter and 70% is dark energy.
- The Sun is 400 times larger than the Moon but is 400 times further away from Earth making them appear the same size.
- Venus does not have any seasons at all.
- 1 year on Mercury consists of less than 2 days on Mercury.
- Helium turns into a solid at 0.95K at 25 atmospheres.
- The coldest place on Earth is in Wolfgang Ketterles laboratory in Massachusetts. But still they coudn't attain an absolute zero.
- The pistol star is the most luminous star known 10 million times the brightness of the Sun.
- All the planets are the same age: 4.544 billion years.
- 8000 stars are visible with naked eye from Earth. 4000 in each hemisphere, 2000 at daylight and 2000 at night.
- 90-99% of all normal matter in the universe is hydrogen.
- Only 55% of all Americans knows that the Sun is a star.
- All the coal, oil, gas, wood and fuel on Earth would only keep the Sun burning for few days.
- A full moon is nine times brighter than a half moon.
- When the Moon is directly above your head or if you stand at the equator, you weight slightly less.
- Just after the Big Bang, everything in the universe was in liquid form.
- Every year, the Moon is moving away from Earth by 3.8 centimeters.
- The Moon spins around its axis in the same time it goes one lap around the Earth which makes us always see the same side of it.
- While in space astronomers can get taller, but at the same time their hearts can get smaller.
- Mars surface is covered with iron oxide (rust).
- Only half a billionth of the energy released by the Sun reaches Earth.
- The light emitting from the Sun is actually 30,000 years old.
- The closest black hole to Earth is only 1.600 light-years away.
- There are 10^24 stars in the universe.
- Any free-moving liquid in outer space will form itself into a sphere due to surface tension.
- The odds of being killed by falling space debris is 1 in 5 billion.
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