20 Amazing Facts about Far Space
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Space hides a lot of mysteries and riddle. Some people explore it in order to understand better. So today we will give you 20 facts about this mysterious place for you to understand it better without going into space.
Interesting Facts about Space
1. There are hundreds of other planets in the space. We are not anole, as there are a big number of other planets in there, but not all of them create possibilities for living on them.
2. The skin of your feet pills off in the space. As astronauts do not use their feet to walk in the space, their skin gets soften and pills off.
3. A year on Venus is shorter than a day. Why so? Because it takes almost 225 Earth days Venus to spin around the sun, but 243 days to rotate on its only one time.
4. When astronauts returned from the moon, they were places in quarantine. That was true till the time Apollo 14 returned safety to the Earth and it was firmed that there was no harmful effect from the Moon.
5. The Sun may fit 1 million Earth.
6. You can become taller in space and your spine stretches out and gravity does not push on you.
7. There are extreme weather conditions on other planets. E.g. Venus is five times hotter than boiling water, while Saturn and Uranus have extremely fast winds.
8. Space is not as far as it may seem. It begins with the Kerman Line (approximately 100 km). So, if you could drive upwards, you would be in space in less than 2 hours.
9. So suppose that the hottest planet is the closest to the Sun. However, mercury, the first planet to the sun is not the hottest one, but the Venus is about 500°C.
10. There is an optical illusion that the moon seems to be bigger on the horizon. The closer Moon is to the horizon and building the bigger it seems to be.
11. There is a moose loose.
12. The work astronaut is of Greek origin and it means “star sailors”.
13. It is possible to cry in the space, but your tears will not fall because of a weightless environment. It may sound cool, but it is also dangerous, as one may draw in the space because of it.
14. Underwear and toilet paper may help to grow plants in space. Don Pettit folded underpants in a form of sphere and covered it with thick toilet paper to provide tomato with the warm environment for its growing.
15. There is a dwarf planet, called after the god of fertility in Rapa Nui mythology. That happened because the planet was discovered on Easter. So, it is called Makemake.
16. There are clouds of different shape and size, which appear in the place of stars, which died. They are extremely beautiful, but they cannot be seen with the naked eye.
17. The North Star changes its location, as the Earth rotates around the sun.
18. Apollo crews did not have any insurance, so in the case of any injures or death, it did not cover. Thus, they did pictures, which were supposed to be posted on the start date as a kind of an insurance.
19. Metals stick together in the space and this process is called cold welding. Unfortunately, it doesn’t happen on the Earth.
20. Voyager 1 has a message for aliens and it is considered to be the furthest one.