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Facts About Space
1 – The sun’s surface is about 10,000 degrees Fahrenheit.
2 – Jupiter has more than twice as many moons as all the other planets combined.
3 – There are at least 100 billion galaxies in our universe.
4 – Astronauts can’t feel their weight in space because they’re floating around in zero gravity.
5 – If you could see Earth from a distance of one light year away, it would look like a blue marble and take up less than 1/500th of your field of vision.
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6 – The International Space Station is the largest artificial satellite orbiting Earth.
7 – You can’t breathe in space because there’s no air.
8 – Venus rotates so slowly that it only takes 225 days to rotate once on its axis, which means a day lasts as long as a year!
9 – It would take about 3 months for an astronaut to get from the earth to Mars if they were travelling at light speed.
10 – Jupiter has 67 moons and Saturn has 62 moons.
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11 – Uranus spins on its side, which means that one pole faces the sun all of the time while the other pole remains dark forever.
12 – The moon is not solid.
13 – Jupiter has 67 moons, the most of any planet.
14 – There are more than 100 billion stars in our galaxy.
15 – A day on Mercury lasts about 58 Earth days and a year on Mercury lasts 88 Earth days.
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16 – Venus is often called Earth’s sister planet because it is similar to Earth in size, mass, density, and gravity.
17 – The first person to orbit the earth was Yuri Gagarin on April 12th 1961.
18 – There are more stars in space than there are grains of sand on every beach.
19 – The sun is actually a star, and the largest object in our solar system.
20 – Jupiter has 67 moons and Saturn has 62.
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21 – Pluto used to be classified as a planet but is now considered a dwarf planet because it’s not big enough or round enough.
22 – Earth is one of eight planets that orbit the sun.
23 – Mars was once covered by water but lost its oceans due to natural disasters like volcanoes and earthquakes.
24 – A shooting star is not a star, but rather a meteor burning up in our atmosphere.
25 – The sun is so big that if it was as tall as a typical house, Earth would be the size of a pinhead at its feet.
Bonus Facts
In space, you can’t tell which way is “up” because there’s no gravity to pull things down towards Earth.
Mercury has no atmosphere and the surface temperature can reach 800 degrees Fahrenheit during the day and -290 degrees at night.
The moon is the only natural satellite in the solar system.
Jupiter has at least 67 moons, Saturn has 62, Uranus 27 and Neptune 14.
The sun’s surface is about 10,000 degrees Fahrenheit (5,500 Celsius).
Earth takes 365 days to orbit the Sun.
Mars takes 687 days to orbit the Sun.
There are more than 100 billion stars in our Milky Way Galaxy alone.
Did you know that Saturn’s rings are made up of ice and dust particles?
It takes light from the sun 8 minutes to reach Earth.
The Milky Way is a collection of about 200 billion stars in our galaxy.
A star becomes a supernova when it explodes, which can happen for many reasons such as being too old or having an intense gravity pull on it.
There are more than 100 billion galaxies in the universe!
We live in one of two spiral arms, called “the Orion arm.”
Jupiter has a core of liquid metallic hydrogen and helium.
Earth’s atmosphere is made up of 78% nitrogen, 21% oxygen, 1% argon, 0.9% carbon dioxide and other gases.
The sun is 400 times larger than all the planets in our solar system combined.
Pluto has an atmosphere composed primarily of methane that freezes as it reaches higher altitudes because its surface temperature falls below -240 degrees Fahrenheit (-150 Celsius).