10 Curious Facts about the world beyond Earth
(ORDO NEWS) — All these endlessly amazing things make you think about the incredible World that exists outside of our tiny planet.
1.
The small white dot in the photo is our planet, taken by the Voyager I probe . In 1990, from a distance of 6 billion km, this most “distant” of all photographs of the Earth was taken.
2.
Jupiter is large enough to contain a thousand planets the size of our Earth.
3.
More than 8 thousand pieces of space debris revolve around the Earth.
4.
A beam of light from the Sun to the Earth takes only 8 minutes, but it takes hundreds of thousands of years for a photon to get from the core of a star to its surface.
5.
99% of the mass of the solar system is the mass of the sun.
6.
If you cry in space, tears will remain in your eyes and face.
7.
There are no sounds in space, since there is no air in which sound waves would propagate.
8.
Every minute the Earth flies 19,300 kilometers.
9.
The planet HD189733b is constantly raining glass.
10.
One day on Venus lasts 224.7 “Earth” days, that is, more than 7 months.
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