These 10 Things About Space You Didn't Know
- There is 1% chance that Mercury will collide with the Earth someday in the future.
- The Milky Way galaxy is whirling rapidly, spinning our Sun and all its other stars at around 100 million km/h (62 million mi/h). One round takes 200 million years.
- The Sun converts about 600,000 tons of hydrogen into helium every second.
- A soup can full of neutron star material would have more mass than the Moon.
- There are giant pools of water floating in space.
- There is a star called WISE 1828+2650 that is only 80 degrees Fahrenheit or 27 degrees Celsius.
- There is a planet (twice of Earth’s size) that may be made entirely out of diamonds.
- A single day on Venus (243 Earth days) is longer than an entire year (225 Earth days).
- There is a gas cloud in the constellation of Aquila that contains enough alcohol to make 400 trillion trillion pints of beer (189 trillion trillion liters).
- The Sun contains 99.85% if all the matter in our Solar System.
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