SPACE FACTS

SPACE FACTS 

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1. Space is completely silent.

2. Venus is the hottest planet in the solar system and has an average surface temperature of around 450° C. Interestingly, Venus is not the closest planet to the Sun – Mercury is closer but because Mercury has no atmosphere to regulate temperature it has a very large temperature fluctuation.

3. Of all the planets in our solar system (apart from Earth), Mars is the one most likely to be hospitable to life. 

4. A FULL NASA SPACE SUIT COSTS $12,000,000.
While the entire suit costs a cool $12M, 70% of that cost is for the backpack and control module.
5. Neutron stars are the densest and tiniest stars in the known universe and although they only have a radius of about 10 km, they may have a mass of a few times that of the Sun.
NEUTRON STARS CAN SPIN 600 TIMES PER SECOND.
6. PLANET MADE OUT OF DIAMONDS
Research by Yale University scientists suggests that a rocky planet called 55 Cancri e — which has a radius twice Earth’s, and a mass eight times greater – may have a surface made up of graphite and diamond. It’s 40 light years away but visible to the naked eye in the constellation of Cancer.
7. The Moon has no atmosphere, which means there is no wind to erode the surface and no water to wash the footprints away. This means the footprints of the Apollo astronauts, along with spacecraft prints, rover-prints and discarded material, will be there for millions of years
8. The Andromeda Galaxy is approaching the Milky Way – where our solar system is – at rate of around 110 kilometres per second (68 mi/s) and eventually the two will collide to form a giant elliptical galaxy.
9. Astronomers have found a massive water vapor cloud which holds 140 trillion times the mass of water in the Earth’s oceans somewhere around 10 billion light years away – making it the largest discovery of water ever found.
10. Made of three quarters hydrogen and helium for most of its remaining mass, the Sun accounts for 99.86% of the mass in our solar system with a mass of around 330,000 times that of Earth.
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