22 Amazing Space Facts

 1. The moon is extremely hot (224 degrees Fahrenheit, average) during the day but very cold (-243 degrees average) in the dark.

2. Venus spins clockwise. It’s the sole planet that does!

3. One teaspoon of a star would weigh six billion tons.

4. Sally Ride was the primary American woman to fly in space, on June 18, 1983.

5. a million Earths could fit inside the sun!

6. Even in an airplane, a visit to Pluto would take about 800 years.

7. Ham the Astrochimp was the primary hominid in space, launched on Jan. 31, 1961.

8. Neptune’s days are 16 hours long.

9. It takes eight minutes and 19 seconds for light to travel from the sun to Earth.

10. The footprints on the moon are going to be there for 100 million years.

11. A star can spin 600 times in one second.

12. Jupiter is that the fastest spinning planet within the system (it only takes about 10 hours to finish a full rotation on its axis).

13. Sound doesn't carry in space.

14. The Earth's core is as hot because of the surface of the sun.

15. The very first animals in space were fruit flies...they were sent up in 1947 and recovered alive.

16. In 2011, ten-year-old Kathryn Aurora Gray discovered a supernova (a star that has run out of energy, explodes then collapses before it dies) that nobody else had seen before.

17. Europa, one among Jupiter's moons, has saltwater geysers that are 20x taller than Mt. Everest.

18. Saturn's rings are made up of trillions of chunks of orbiting ice.

19. Alpha Centauri isn't a star, but a star system. It is 4.22 light-years away.

20. at some point on Venus is nearly 8 months on Earth.

21. Jupiter's Great Red Spot may be a storm that has been raging for over 200 years.

22. There are more stars within the universe than grains of sands on Earth.

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