24 Things You Didnt Know About The Universe

Peter Pizagalli Published 07/18/2014

Etremely interesting space facts

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1.
33 light years away there is an exoplanet completely covered in burning ice
2.
A day on Venus is longer than a year
3.
About 275 million new stars are born everyday
4.
According to astronauts, space smells like seared steak, hot metal, and welding fumes
5.
According to researchers, the center of our galaxy tastes like raspberries and smells like rum
6.
Each year the moon moves 3.8 cm further from the Earth.
7.
Earth has over 8,000 pieces of space junk orbiting around it
8.
Earth's rotation is slowing at a rate of about 17 milliseconds a century
9.
Far beyond Neptune, there may be an object the size of Earth orbiting the sun look up Oort cloud
10.
If you could compress the Earth down to the size of a marble it would collapse on itself and become a black hole
11.
If you could put Saturn in a bathtub it would float
12.
If you cry in space the tears just stick to your face.
13.
It recently captured the most distant photograph of Earth
14.
One spoonful of matter from a neutron star would weigh about a billion tons
15.
One spoonful of matter from a neutron star would weigh about a billion tons
16.
Its also so wide that if you were standing on the edge of its caldera, the base of the volcano would be over the horizon.
17.
The Milky Way has four spiral arms, not two
18.
The sun makes up 99 of the mass of the solar system
19.
It takes a photon, on average, 170,000 years to travel from the core of the sun to the surface.
20.
Then it takes just 8 minutes from the suns surface to your eyes.
21.
The Voyager 1 spacecraft is the most distant human-made object from Earth
22.
There is a diamond floating in our galaxy that is bigger than Earth
23.
There is a planet called HD189733b where it rains glass sideways
24.
Theres a gas cloud in the constellation of Aquila that contains enough alcohol to make 400 trillion trillion pints of beer.

1.
33 light years away there is an exoplanet completely covered in burning ice
2.
A day on Venus is longer than a year
3.
About 275 million new stars are born everyday
4.
According to astronauts, space smells like seared steak, hot metal, and welding fumes
5.
According to researchers, the center of our galaxy tastes like raspberries and smells like rum
6.
Each year the moon moves 3.8 cm further from the Earth.
7.
Earth has over 8,000 pieces of space junk orbiting around it
8.
Earth's rotation is slowing at a rate of about 17 milliseconds a century
9.
Far beyond Neptune, there may be an object the size of Earth orbiting the sun look up Oort cloud
10.
If you could compress the Earth down to the size of a marble it would collapse on itself and become a black hole
11.
If you could put Saturn in a bathtub it would float
12.
If you cry in space the tears just stick to your face.
13.
It recently captured the most distant photograph of Earth
14.
One spoonful of matter from a neutron star would weigh about a billion tons
15.
One spoonful of matter from a neutron star would weigh about a billion tons
16.
Its also so wide that if you were standing on the edge of its caldera, the base of the volcano would be over the horizon.
17.
The Milky Way has four spiral arms, not two
18.
The sun makes up 99 of the mass of the solar system
19.
It takes a photon, on average, 170,000 years to travel from the core of the sun to the surface.
20.
Then it takes just 8 minutes from the suns surface to your eyes.
21.
The Voyager 1 spacecraft is the most distant human-made object from Earth
22.
There is a diamond floating in our galaxy that is bigger than Earth
23.
There is a planet called HD189733b where it rains glass sideways
24.
Theres a gas cloud in the constellation of Aquila that contains enough alcohol to make 400 trillion trillion pints of beer.