With a temperature of 475 degrees Celsius, Venus is actually the hottest planet in our solar system.
Even though it’s the second planet from the sun, Venus’s atmosphere traps heat in. Which makes the surface much hotter.
The sun makes up for more than 99 percent of the mass of the solar system.
It weighs about 4.4X10^30 lbs or 44,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 lbs.
There are more trees on Earth than stars in space.
There are an estimated 100-400 billion stars in space, but that’s nothing compared to the three TRILLION trees on Earth.
If you’re on Mars, the sunset you see will be blue.
Weirdly the red dust on mars enhances the blue parts of the light spectrum making for a strange sunset.
Footprints of astronauts, or rover prints, will stay on the moon’s surface for at least 100 million years.
Hopefully, we make it back up there before then.
Similar metals can weld together on their own, when in space.
It’s a process called cold welding.
There are more than 23,000 objects orbiting the earth that count as “space junk”.
Thankfully, space is huge and these objets are all really far apart… for now.
There’s an Earth-like planet called 55 Cancri e, which is made of diamonds.
Unfortunately, the diamonds are all covered in lava.
The International Space Station (ISS) is actually as big as a football field.
The whole thing only measures 357 feet from one end to another.
Uranus is the ONLY planet that rotates sideways.
It rotates on a 97.7 degree tilt. It is likely due to a collision long ago.
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I serously doubt about that fact (more trees than stars)
There are an estimated 200 billion trillion stars in the observable universe, so by "space" they must mean the Milk Way. Tree count is correct.
New news- Due recent discoveries involving Keplerian decline in the Milky Way's rotation curve, our galaxy's mass has been calculated to be significantly lower than previously thought.
yeah, I called BS as soon as I read that...
" I don't understand it, so it must be a lie! No, I won't do my own research! Fake news!! Fake news!!"
'Merica!
So I guess it's not like earth.
Yeah, I saw that meme, too.
earth-like just means a rock planet aprox. the size of earth
#3 Maybe the galaxy.
#8 Maybe they mean earth-sized.
flat earth much?
FALSE : There are an estimated 100-400 billion stars in the MILKY WAY (only).