Here are some of the most interesting and amazing facts about planets, universe and space. Read them and enjoy.
- Do you know that our milky way galaxy is rotating very rapidly, spinning our sun and all other stars at around 100 million kilometers per hour.
- The Milky Way galaxy that we live in is one of the BILLION galaxies in this universe.
- Do you know that Sun takes around 200 million years to travel around the galaxy. The distance that sun travels is 100,000 light years.
- It is estimated that universe is 15 billion years old.
- The farthest galaxy in this universe is spreading away from us at a speed of more than 90% of the speed of light.
- The matter that spirals into a black hole is torn apart and it glows so brightly that it creates the brightest objects in the universe - the Quasars.
- The opposite of black holes are white holes which spray out matter and light like fountains.
- One day on Mercury is equal to approximately 59 earth days.
- Do you know that astronauts brought around 375 Kg. of Moon rock to earth.
- Do you know that the brightest star in each constellation is called as Alpha and the next brightest as Beta and so on..
- The first rockets were made around 1000 years in China.
- The slowest planet in our solar system is Venus, which takes around 243 days to turn around itself.
- Do you know that the fastest spinning objects in the universe are the neutron stars? they can rotate 500 times in one second.
- The sun does not set for 20 years in summer on Uranus. The darkness lasts for 20 years in winter on Uranus. In autumn, the sun rises and sets every 9 hours on Uranus.
- Solar flares has temperatures of nearly 10 million degrees celcius and their energy is equal to one million atom bombs.
- The age of sun is about 5 billion years. The Sun may live for another 10 billion years.
- The weight of Sun is 2,000 trillion trillion tonnes - which is about 3,00,000 times as much as the earth.
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