Amazing space facts

This is a space data-base taken from internet .

1. Saturn's moon Titan has plenty of evidence of organic (life) chemicals in its atmosphere.

2. The universe extends from the earth for at least 10 billion light years..and prob still expanding.

3. The moon is moving away from the earth at a slow rate of 3cm per year.

4. Every star would explode if the gravity did not hold its material together..

5. The sun travels around the galaxy once every 200 million years .....and this journey is of 100,000 light years.

6. A day in a mercury planet lasts approx. as long as 59 days on earth.

7. The universe is 13.7 million years old.

8. The earth is not a flat , but the universe is.

9. A comet's tail always points away from  the sun.

10. The earth spins at 1,000 mph but it travels through space at an incredible 67,000 mph.

11. It takes 8 minutes 17 seconds for light to travel from the sun's surface to the earth.

12. The moon weighs is 81 billion tons.

13. 99% mass of our solar system is concentrated in the sun.

14. Our galaxy has approx. 250 billion stars and it is estimated that there are 100 billion other galaxies in the universe.

15. Acc to scientists, gold exists on the planets mars, mercury and venus.

16. The sun provide our planet with 126,000,000,000,000 horsepower of energy every day

       This means 54000 horsepower is delievered to every person in each 24 hours period.

17. If you fell into a black hole, you would strech like spaghetti.

18. The red color of mars is due to the presence of oxidized (rusted) iron in its soil.

19. The first rocket were made about 1000 years  ago in China.

20. The shoemaker-Levy 9 comet smashed into Jupiter in july 1994, with the biggest crash ever witnessed.

21. The astonauts brought about 380 kg of rock from moon to earth.

22. The biggest star in each constellation is called alpha star, the next brightest is Beta star.
23. The atmosphere of the earth is the only in which human can breath in.
24. The largest moon in the solar-system is the jupiter's moon name ganymede.
25. Saturn is not solid , But it is made of almost entirely of gas-mostly liquid hydrogen & helium.
26. Uranus's moon miranda is the widest moon .
27. The slowest rotating planet is venus, which takes 243.01 days to turn around.

28. The first space telescope was the Copernicus, send out in 1972.

29. Neptune's moon triton is the coldest place in the Solar System, the temperature at the suraface of triton is -236 Degree centigrate.

30. The first living creature in the space was the dog Laika on-board sputnik

 2 in 1957, She died when the spacecraft's oxygen supply ranout.
31. Ceres is the biggest asteroid in the Solar System, about 940 km across and 0.0002% the size of Earth.
32. We see star twinkle because we see them through the wafting of the atmosphere.
33. The moon's gravity is the 17% of the Earth's so the astronauts in the space suits can jump 4 meter higher the moon 
34. Abel 2029 is the largest galaxy of the universe, With the diameter of about 5.6 million light years which is 80 times greater then our milky way galaxy . It is about 1,070 million light years away from the earth.
35. The planet Venus is the Goddess of Love and is the brightest planet in our solar system.
36. Red Planet, Mars has no ozone layer and do not have any protective against ultra violet rays.
37. The planet Saturn is also known a giant ball made of gas, so the planet can float on water.
38. The Solar System has nine planets including Pluto, but the Pluto may be escaped moon or an asteroid not a planet.
39.The Large Megallinic Cloud is teh brightest of all galaxies and visible only in southern hemisphere and it is about 1.7 lacs light years away from our earth and its diameter is 39,000 light years.
40. The Sagittarius Dwarf is the galaxy was discovered in 1994 and the nearest of all galaxies. It is about 70,000 light years away from our earth.
41.  The planet Uranus is visible to the naked eye.
42. About 200 million years ago Earth contained 1 land mass called Pangaea.
43. The sun has a core temperature of 154 000 000 Kelvin.
44. A day on planet Jupiter is about 9 hours, 50 minutes, 30 seconds at the equator.
45. The earth's magnetic field is not permanent.
46. The moon orbits the Earth every 27.32 days.
47. The earth's average velocity orbiting the sun is 107 220 km per hour.
48. The largest Volcano in the solar system is on Mars named Olympus Moons which is  600 km wide and 24,000 m high is nearly three times higher than Mount Everest.
49. The Halley's comet is seen after every 76 years in the sky. It was last seen in the year 1986.
50. A person of 60 kgs weight barely will weigh 10 kg on moon, but 1,680 kg on the sun.