Universe Facts

1. If you went out into space, you would explode before you suffocated because there’s no air pressure.

2. A space suit costs around $12 million.

3. A day on Venus is longer than a year.

4. 33 light years away there is an exoplanet called Gliese 436b, completely covered in burning ice.

5. Each year the moon moves 3.8 cm further from the Earth.

6. A teaspoon of neutron star material would weigh 4 billion tons.

7. The sun makes up 99% of the mass of the solar system.

8. About one million earths could fit inside the sun.

9. It takes a photon, on average, 170,000 years to travel from the core of the sun to the surface.

10. There is a diamond planet, called 55 Cancri e, floating in our galaxy and is bigger than the Earth.

11. There is a water reservoir floating in space that has 140 trillion times all the water in the world’s ocean.

12. In 1977, we received an unknown signal from space that lasted 72 seconds.

13. Olympus Mons on Mars is the largest mountain in our solar system with height up to 15 miles.

14. The Milky Way galaxy is whirling rapidly, spinning our sun and all its other stars at around 100 million km per hour.

15. It takes our solar system about 230 million years to make one complete orbit around the Milky way even when we are moving with an average speed of 828,000 km/hr.

16. The red color of Mars is due to oxidized (rusted) iron in its soil.

17. Earth’s atmosphere was formed from gases pouring out from volcanoes.

18. The surface of Jupiter at equator spins at about 45,000 kilometers per hour.

19. The largest moon in the Solar System is the Jupiter’s moon Ganymede.

20. Saturn is not solid, but is made almost entirely of gas – mostly liquid hydrogen and helium. Only in the planet’s very small core is there any rock.

21. Winds in Saturn’s upper atmosphere can reach speeds of 1,800 kilometers (1,118 miles) per hour near its                       equator.

22. The slowest rotating planet is Venus, which takes 243.01 days to turn around.

23. The fastest spinning objects in the Universe are neutron stars – these can rotate 500 times in just 1 second.

24. The sun weighs 2,000 trillion trillion tones – about 300,000 times as much as the Earth.

25. Saturn’s rings are sets of thin rings of ice, dust and tiny rocks, which orbit the planet around its equator.