Space Facts
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black holes - interesting facts
If you put enough matter in one small place, it creates a black hole, a gravitational field so intense that nothing, not even light, can escape from it! A black hole is an extremely weird object. Its intense gravitational field changes space and time in fundamental ways. Each ...
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Interesting Gravity Facts
Gravity was discovered 3 centuries ago by a mathematician and physicist named Sir Isaac Newton. Gravity is a force. It is the force that keeps our feet on the ground and the Earth spinning around the Sun. The force of gravity 100 km (62 miles) above Earth is just ...
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galaxies facts
A galaxy is an island of billions of stars, separated from other galaxies by a vast ocean of almost empty space. The number of galaxies cannot be counted—the observable universe alone may contain 100 billion. Galaxies are classified into three main types: spiral galaxies, elliptical galaxies, and irregular galaxies. Galaxies considered as ...
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interesting Venus facts
Venus rotates backwards compared to the other planets. The atmospheric pressure at the surface of Venus is 92 times that of the Earth. The volume is Venus is 928,400,000,000 km3, while its mass is 4,868,5 x 1020 kg and density is 5.24 g/cm3. Venus is the brightest of all planets. It ...
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Interesting facts about astronauts
Astronaut Neil Armstrong first stepped on the moon with his left foot. Approximately 115 tons of ocean salt spray enters the earth's atmosphere each second. The first woman in space was a Russian called Valentina Tereshkova. Armstrong’s quote “That’s one small step for man, one ...
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Interesting Facts about Asteroids
The largest asteroid is Ceres, is about the size of Texas. Asteroids can contain water, iron, silicates, and some heavy metals - like gold, lead, and uranium. The vast majority of asteroids are grouped in the asteroid belt. Even if there are 1000 times more asteroids than we know ...
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Interesting astronomy facts
The Sun is around 4.5 billion years old. The center of the Sun is called the core. There are stars that are over 600,000 times as bright as the Sun. The biggest star is VY Canis Majoris, a red hypergiant 5000 light years from the Solar ...
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Interesting facts about Planet Mars
Planet Mars diameter of about half the Earth, measuring only 6,800 km across. The mass of Mars is 641,850,000,000,000,000,000,000 kg. Mars is named after the Roman god of war because its red color reminded early observers of blood. Mars is referred to as the Red Planet, due to its red soil ...
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Interesting Facts About Jupiter
Jupiter is the largest planet in our solar system. The mass of Jupiter is 318 times the mass of the Earth. In fact, Jupiter has 2.5 times the mass of all the other planets in the Solar System combined. Jupiter is the fastest spinning of the planets. Jupiter is the fourth ...
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Interesting facts about Chaos Theory
Chaos theory is a popular name for the mathematical study of complex, unstable systems. A system tends to be chaotic when even a small change in initial conditions can lead to drastically different results. Chaos theory has obvious applications in the world, as most real world situations are chaotic, ...
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Strange and interesting facts about planet Earth
Earth has only one satellite, the Moon. Moon is the second brightest object in the sky, as seen from the planet. The Earth is always moving. It spins or rotates while traveling in a big circle around the Sun. ...
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Interesting Moon facts
It was not discovered until 1665 that other planets had natural satellites as well, at which point "moon" started to be dropped and instead referred to as "The Moon" . Although the moon looks white in the sky, its surface is actually about as bright as an asphalt ...