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25. The sun makes up 99% of the solid mass in our solar system.
24. There is a planet called HD189733b where it rains glass sideways!
23. It takes a photon, on average, 170,000 years to travel from the core to the surface of the sun.
22. Then the photon takes just 8 minutes from the sun's surface to your eyes.
21. Way beyond Neptune, there may be an object the size of Earth orbiting the sun (check out the Oort cloud).
20. There's a gas cloud in the constellation of Aquila that contains enough alcohol to make 400 trillion trillion pints of beer. WOW!
19. Scientists noticed that Dung beetles can use the Milky Way to navigate. Late at night they will follow the stars to get to where they are going.
18. 33 light years away there is an exoplanet completely covered in burning ice.
17. If you could compress the Earth down to the size of a marble it would collapse on itself and become a black hole.
16. About 275 million new stars are born everyday. (That we know of!)
15. Olympus Mons, the largest mountain in the solar system can be found on Mars. It is 3 times the height of Mt. Everest and basically sticks out of Mars's atmosphere.
14. Olympus Mons is also so wide that if you were standing on the edge of its caldera, the base of the volcano would be over the horizon.
13. The Milky Way has four spiral arms, not two. What??
12. According to researchers, the center of our galaxy tastes like raspberries and smells like rum. Crazy that they know that sort of thing.
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11. According to astronauts, space smells like seared steak, hot metal, and welding fumes. I wonder why?
10. Earth's rotation is slowing at a rate of about 17 milliseconds a century. So you could say that it is slowly slowing...
9. A day on Venus is longer than a year. Imagine what that would be like.
8. If you cry in space the tears just stick to your face. I feel sad for the astronaut that found this out.
7. There is a diamond floating in our galaxy that is bigger than Earth. I wonder what made it.
6. One spoonful of matter from a neutron star would weigh about a billion tons.
5. The Voyager 1 spacecraft is the furthest man made object from Earth.
4. Voyager 1 recently captured the most distant picture of Earth ever recorded.
3. Earth has over 8,000 pieces of space junk orbiting around it. Space Pollution is now a thing thanks to humans.
2. Each year the moon moves 3.8 cm. further from Earth.
1. If you could put Saturn in a bathtub it would float.
What did you think? What other interesting facts do you know about our universe? Let us know in the comments below!
Thank you for reading,
Renee
Team Spirit
Special Thanks to Syed Balkhi and David Pegg for putting this together!
Source for list and photos- List25
