Space is a very strange and mysterious place, so here are some interesting facts about it.
- According to some scientists, the center of Milky Way(our galaxy) tastes like raspberries and smells like rum.
- One million Earths can fit inside the Sun.
- A day on Venus is a year on Earth(because Venus is further from the Sun than the Earth is, so it needs more time to spin around it).
- Merucy is the closest to the Sun, but is't not the hottest planet(425°C, but at night can drop at -180°C), where Venuson on the other hand is 500°C all of the time(making it the hottest planet in the solar system).
- The Apollo crews(the crew that went on the Moon) did not have any life insurance.
- If Russia was a planet, it would be almost as big as Pluto(yes, I know, Pluto isn't considered as a planet anymore).
- Mars has the largest dust storms in the solar system.
- 99.86% of the solar system’s mass is found in the Sun and the majority of the remaining 0.14% is contained within the solar system’s eight planets.
- The Andromeda Galaxy is the closest large galaxy to the Milky Way.
- Comets have two tails: a dust tail (which you can see with the naked eye) and a plasma tail, which is easily photographed but difficult to see with your eyes.
- Millions of meteoroids travel through Earth’s atmosphere each day.
- The Moon is drifting away from the Earth3.8cm(1.5in) away every year.
- The Sun is 4.6 billion years old.
- Saturn can be seen with the naked eye.
- Mars is home to the tallest mountain in the solar system(Olympus Mons).
- Some asteroids have moons of their own.
- Light from the Sun takes eight minutes to reach Earth.
- During the 1950’s the USA considered detonating a nuclear bomb on the Moon.