August 07, 2023

TOP 10 Coolest Facts About SPACE that will BLOW Your Mind!

Top 10 MIND BLOWING space facts that will make you say WOW!

Space is billions of years old so how many space facts are there to know? here are some mind-boggling facts that are bound to impress everyone around you into thinking you're the next Einstein.

#1. THERE ARE HOW MANY GALAXIES

IN THE UNIVERSE?!

How many galaxies are there in the universe 100, 200, 300? Nope the answer will definitely leave you mind-blown! keep guessing how close were you?

It's estimated that there is about 200,000,000,000 galaxies or TWO-HUNDRED BILLION galaxies in the ENTIRE UNIVERSE! and THE UNIVERSE is STILL EXPANDING meaning that there could possibly be tons of more unknown galaxies that we don't know about yet.

#2. IT RAINS WHAT!? IT RAINS
DIAMONDS ON SATURN!

Believe it or not but it rains ACTUAL DIAMONDS on Saturn which is absolutely crazy. According to It’s Raining Diamonds on Saturn - Only Natural Diamonds Wherein Author Dr. Abhijeet Borkar explains that this phenomenon arises when a lightning storm takes place on Saturn the methane (a highly flammable gas located in Saturn's atmosphere) soon turns into soot which then falls and hardens which creates graphite and in turn creates diamonds!

#3. THE MOON FOOTPRINTS WILL NEVER DISAPPEAR?!

It turns out that the footprints left on the moon will never go away because "there is no wind to blow them away." so this means that the footprints left by the apollo astronauts in 1969 will last for MILLIONS OF YEARS on the moon.

#4. TIMETRAVEL MAYBE? NOPE. JUST SUNLIGHT

Apparently, when you see sunlight, you're seeing how it looked 8 MINUTES AGO! According to Seeing in the Dark . Astronomy Topics . Light as a Cosmic Time Machine | PBS By Andrew Fraknoi wherein he explains "The Sun is 93 million miles away, so sunlight takes 8 and 1/3 minutes to get to us. Not much changes about the Sun in so short a time, but it still means that when you look at the Sun, you see it as it was 8 minutes ago."

#5. WHAT WOULD HAPPEN IF YOU WERE SUCKED INTO BLACKHOLE?

Stephen Hawking was once asked this question to which he responded that you would turn into spaghetti! everybody around him didn't think he was being serious, but he actually was you see if you were to be sucked into a blackhole you would be "Spaghettified " or the process " Spaghettification" which is a term coined by Hawking meaning that you would basically be stretched out or be turned into spaghetti.

#6. BIGGER THAN THE GRAND CANYON!?

The Grand Canyon here on earth is According to Mars Express peers into Mars' 'Grand Canyon' – Science in School "At 4000 km long, 200 km wide, and up to 7 km deep, Valles Marineris [A canyon on Mars] is almost ten times longer, 20 times wider, and five times deeper than the Grand Canyon." so the canyon on mars Valles Marineris is MUCH BIGGER than the grand
canyon we have here on earth.

#7. There's what? VOLCANOS ON MARS?!

On mars there's a volcano " As wide as France." And " Three times as high as Everest. " The volcano is called Olympus mons it's a 3.5-billion-year-old shield volcano that hasn't been active since the last eruption which was 25 million years ago!

the reason Olympus mons is shaped like this is because of the "lava flowing on its sides." It is also believed that Olympus mons used to be a volcanic island surrounded by water!

#8. WHAT DOES SPACE SMELL LIKE?

What does space smell like? well according to The smells of outer space and their causes | Britannica by Matt Davenport wherein he states that space smells of "Bacon, rotten eggs, and gunpowder. That's what outer space smells like, according to those who have been there."

Some astronauts have also reported that space smells of "seared steak" or "hot metal."

#9. IF YOU JUMP HERE, YOU'LL FLOAT AWAY ENDLESSLY

Jumping on earth? you definitely won't float away hmm... how about the moon? Nope you still wouldn't float away than where would you float away if you jumped? If you were to jump from Comet 67p there's a chance that you will likely would not return back, you would just float away endlessly into the emptiness space.

#10. A 16th CENTURY STORM STILL RAGING ON JUPITER!

Jupiter is known for its Great
Red Spot, but did you know that the spot-on Jupiter isn't just a boring old spot it's a GIANT STORM that has been going on for centuries and it bigger than earth itself! In a NASA article about Jupiter's Great big red spot https://www.nasa.gov/feature/goddard/2021/hubble-shows-winds-in-jupiters-great-red-spot-are-speeding-up

Wherein they explained that Jupiter's storm can reach " speeds that exceed 400 miles per hour."

Work cited:

Canva Used for cover design.

Planets image found on Astroclips.com

Night sky photo by Gavin Treadgold on Flickr

Galaxy photo found on Clubedcienciasastronomia blog

Saturn image found on Planetary.org

Diamond image found on Wallpaperup by Belle Deesse

Diamond image 2 found on Iagua.es blog

Image Moon footprint found on Mindhacks.com

Image of astronaut on moon found on Express.co.uk

Rover on moon on Fanpop.com posted by lilyZ