Fun Facts About Astronomy

in STEMGeeks3 years ago

15 Astronomy Fun Facts
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The sun is 400 times larger than the moon, but it is 400 times farther away from Earth, giving the impression that they are the same size.

On Venus, a single day is longer than an entire year on Earth.

If you ever walked on the moon, your footprints would be left there in perpetuity.

Only one-fifth of the energy released by the sun reaches Earth.

In space, the skin on your feet peels off.

The sun can hold one million Earths.

In space, you grow taller.

The universe isn't all that far away. In theory, you could get there in less than an hour if you could drive your car upwards.

In space, you can cry, but your tears do not fall.

Because Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune have no solid surface, you cannot walk on them.

The highest mountain known to man, Olympus Moon, is located on Mars and is three times higher than Mount Everest.

If you could fly to Pluto, it would take over 800 years.

Once a year, an asteroid the size of a car enters Earth's atmosphere, but it burns up before it reaches us.

On Mars, the sunset appears blue.

Uranus is slanted to one side.

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Interesting facts. This one seems off:

Only one-fifth of the energy released by the sun reaches Earth.

The earth is just one tiny little marble in the solar system. The earth would only receive a tiny portion of the energy produced by the sun. We are probably receive something like a billionth of the energy produced by the sun.

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