Some space facts:
- The "Pillars of Creation" in the Eagle Nebula (above) were most likely destroyed in a supernova explosion 6,000 years ago.
- Any free-moving liquid in outer space will form itself into a sphere, because of its surface tension.
- In space, no one can hear you scream.
- Jupiter's magnetosphere is the largest single structure inside the Solar System. If you could see it with your eyes, it would appear larger than our full Moon.
- Europa, covered with mostly water ice, has the smoothest surface of any large object in the solar system.
- If you added up the mass of all of the thousands of known asteroids in the asteroid belt, the total would be less than ten percent the mass of the Earth's moon.
- In space, astronauts cannot cry, because there is no gravity, so the tears can't flow.
- The moon is drifting away from Earth at a rate of 3.8cm a year.
- Star BPM 37093 is actually a giant diamond. It's a mass of crystallized carbon.
- Sun Ra wrote all of his own lines for the film, Space is the Place.
1 comments:
We love your blog, Mary! Your writing style is really fun to read and you come up with such cool things to have rolling around in our brains.
We just wish we could see Jupiter's magnetosphere. Dang.
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