Fun Facts!
1.) The universe contains around 50,000,000,000 galaxies, each of which has between 100,000,000,000 and 1,000,000,000,000 stars.
2.) Time passes more slowly in orbit around the earth meaning returning astronauts arrive home slightly younger than if they had spent the same amount of time on earth.
3.) At the speed of light, time stops.
4.) Dark matter makes up 83% of the matter in the universe, but we can’t see it and no one knows what it is.
5.) Just a teaspoon full of a neutron star would weigh over 100 million tons.
6.) According to some forms of cosmology, there are an infinite number of universes with an infinite number of people.
7.) Many scientists believe that an asteroid impact caused the extinction of the dinosaurs around 65 million years ago.
8.) Footprints and tyre tracks left behind by astronauts on the moon will stay there forever as there is no wind to blow them away.
9.) Despite its size, if you put Saturn in water it would float
10.) The Sun loses up to a billion kilograms a second due to solar winds
11.) We are moving through space at the rate of 530km a second
12.) Uranus was originally called George's Star.
13.) If two pieces of metal encountered each other and touched in space, they would become permanently stuck together
14.) The Sun loses up to a billion kilograms a second due to solar winds
15.) The moon is slowly drifting away from Earth.
2.) Time passes more slowly in orbit around the earth meaning returning astronauts arrive home slightly younger than if they had spent the same amount of time on earth.
3.) At the speed of light, time stops.
4.) Dark matter makes up 83% of the matter in the universe, but we can’t see it and no one knows what it is.
5.) Just a teaspoon full of a neutron star would weigh over 100 million tons.
6.) According to some forms of cosmology, there are an infinite number of universes with an infinite number of people.
7.) Many scientists believe that an asteroid impact caused the extinction of the dinosaurs around 65 million years ago.
8.) Footprints and tyre tracks left behind by astronauts on the moon will stay there forever as there is no wind to blow them away.
9.) Despite its size, if you put Saturn in water it would float
10.) The Sun loses up to a billion kilograms a second due to solar winds
11.) We are moving through space at the rate of 530km a second
12.) Uranus was originally called George's Star.
13.) If two pieces of metal encountered each other and touched in space, they would become permanently stuck together
14.) The Sun loses up to a billion kilograms a second due to solar winds
15.) The moon is slowly drifting away from Earth.