Our planet, Earth, beautiful, delicate, yet seemingly massive and powerful to it’s inhabitants. It remains full of mystery with history that we have yet to uncover and new species yet to be discovered. Oceans cover 70 percent of the Earth’s surface, yet 95 percent of this remains unexplored and unseen by human eyes. Though our planet is magnificent in it’s own right, it pales in comparison when compared to some of the vast wonders in our solar system, our galaxy and the universe. Mans fascination with space is a continuation of our collective desire to explore the unknown. So expand your knowledge of the universe with 15 of the most spectacular, immense and mind blowing facts straight from outer space.
15. A neutron star is so dense that one teaspoonful would weigh a billion tons.
14. An estimated 825 million stars are born every day.
13. Space has its very own magnifying glass.
12. Our galaxy, the Milky Way,
11.The very farthest galaxies are spreading away from us at more than 90% of the speed of light. Galaxies,
10.There is a supermassive black hole right in the middle of the Milky Way galaxy that is 4 million times the mass of the Sun.
9. Our star, the Sun, makes up 99% of all the mass in our Solar System.
8. On Titan the atmosphere is so thick and the gravity so low that humans could fly through it by flapping wings attached to their arms.
7.The Apollo astronauts footprints on the Moon will probably stay there for at least 100 million years.
6. The middle layers of space suits are blown up like a balloon.
5. The largest asteroid ever recorded is a mammoth piece of space rock named Ceres.
4. All of space is completely silent.
3. 33 light years away, there is a planet that is completely covered in burning ice.
2. Life is known to exist only on Earth, but in 1986 NASA found what they think could be fossils of microscopic living things in a rock from Mars.
1. Shooting stars really exist.
CREDITS
The Descent – Kevin Macleod
International Olympiad on Astronomy and Astrophysics – Volos 2013 – Pentalunex Team
wormhole (loop) – beeple
Colliding neutron stars create black hole – NASA
A close look at star formation in the souther Milky Way – ESO Observatory
Star being born – NASA
Zooming in on the globular star cluster NGC 6362 – ESO Observatory
Artist’s impression of a protocluster forming in the early Universe – ESO Observatory
Artists impression of gravitational lensing – ESO OBservatory
Gravitational lensing of distant star forming galaxies – ESO Observatory
Milky Way and Andromeda galaxies collide – NASA
Observing comet siding spring at Mars – NASA
Zooming in on the Strange galaxy Centaurus A – ESO Observatory
Unravelling the mysteries of the universe – NASA
Zooming in on the Triangulum Galaxy – ESO Observatory
Form Galaxy II – Dan Sollis
X-ray Echoes Probe Habitat of Monster Black Hole – NASA
RXTE Satelite Catches The Beat Of A Midsize Black Hole – NASA
Fiery Looping Rain On The sun – NASA
3D Solar System Rotating -Manny Morales
Titan Master – NASA
NASA First Spacewalk Successful for Drew, Bowen – NASA
Astronauts Conduct Space Walk To Make Important Repairs On International Space Station – NASA
Dawn’s Smooth Move – NASA
Ceres Layers – NASA
2010 DIGITAL ORRERY – John Shells
Solar system – LTV Channel – Stephen Hal
Asteroid RD – NMK
Mars Evolution – NASA
After Effects – Universe With Asteroids-Jamie Mumford
Mira, A Real Shooting Star – NASA
Delta Aquarid meteor shower Timelapse 2012-Grahame Kelaher
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