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Do You Know These facts on the Universe!

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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 unive

Mars was in opposition to Earth

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Mars:  Planet Comes Into Opposition, Will Be Closest to Earth for 1st Time Since 2005 Mars reached opposition, at which point it was on the direct opposite side of Earth as the sun, at 7:10 a.m. EDT Sunday. On May 30, Mars will be the closest it has been to Earth since 2005. Which is in India at afternoon that is 04:40 PM. The Hubble Space Telescope is well known for its picturesque views of nebulae and galaxies, but it’s also useful for studying our own planets, including Mars. On May 12, 2016, astronomers using NASA's  Hubble Space Telescope  captured this striking image of  ‪‎ Mars‬ , when the planet was 50 million miles (80.5 million km) from Earth. About every 26 months,  ‪‎ Mars‬  and the sun are on opposite sides of Earth, we refer to this orientation as an opposition. Earth’s orbit around the sun is very nearly circular. Bu t Mars has a much more eccentric orbit, which brings the red planet some 43 million kilometers (26 million miles) farther from the sun