10 Interesting Fact About Outer space and astronomy
10 Interesting Fact About Outer space and astronomy
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The biggest star known in the universe is the vy canis majoris which has a radius of 1,800 times greater than the sun.
One year on the planet Mercury only lasts for 88 days on earth.
There are more than 170 billion galaxies in the universe, estimated to have hundreds of billions of stars each.
There is a planet found named HD 189733b which has glass rain and surface temperatures around 1,000 degrees Celsius.
The sun has a mass of around 333,000 times heavier than earth and is expected to continue to burning for the next 5 billion.
In 1961, Yuri Gagarin became the first human being to travel into space.
There is an asteroid called 16 Psyche which is estimated to consist of precious metals such as gold and platinum worth more than 10,000 trillion dollars.
Saturn has 82 natural satellites that are known and there may still be other satellites that have not been detected.
There is a phenomenon of the universe known as Supernova which can produce light brighter than hundreds of billions of suns in a short time.
There is a scientific theory that states that the universe has continued to grow and grow bigger since the Big Bang occurred around 13.8 billion years ago.
