The facts which are listed below are a must know Facts about Space .
- The 6th planet in our solar system namely Saturn has so less density that it would float on water
- Uranus was originally called George Star ! which was later changed to its current name .
- If you go too near a Black Hole your body would stretch like spaghetti .
- The first Rockets were made 1000 years ago in China
- A day in Mercury lasts approximately as long as 59 days on earth.
- There may be 20 trillion galaxies in the Universe.
- The brightest stars in the night sky are not actually stars, but the planets Jupiter, Venus, Mars and Mercury.
- The brightest quasar is 3C 273, 2 billion light years away.
- Dried up riverbeds show that Mars probably once had water in its surface. There is sometimes ice at the poles and maybe water underground.
- The future of the Universe may depend on how much dark matter there is. If there is too much, its gravity will eventually stop the Universe’s expansion – and make it shrink again.
- The first space telescope was the Copernicus, sent out in 1972.
- The Sun travels around the galaxy once every 200 million years – a journey of 100,000 light years.
- The very furthest galaxies are spreading away from us at more than 90% of the speed of light.
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