Facts About Our Universe, Set 7

 

Facts About Our Universe

FACT 01

Outer Space is only 62 miles away. The International Space Station circles Earth every 92 minutes.

FACT 02

Stars twinkle because of the way light is disrupted as it passes through Earth’s atmosphere.

FACT 03

We always see the same side of the Moon, no matter where we stand on Earth.

FACT 04

In March 2016, the Kepler Space Telescope saw a star measuring 500 times bigger than the sun, a supernova around 1.2 billion light-years away.

FACT 05

There are three main types of galaxies: elliptical, spiral & irregular.

FACT 06

Contrary to popular belief, it does not take the Earth 24 hours to complete a single rotation; it actually takes 23 hours, 56 minutes, and 4 seconds to complete a rotation, and astronomers call this a sidereal day.

FACT 07

There are approximately 100 thousand million stars in the Milky Way.

FACT 08

Two-thirds of the galaxies in the known universe are spirals, and two-thirds of those are barred. The Milky Way ticks both of these boxes, making it one of the most common galaxy designs.

FACT 09

Using the naked eye, you can see 3 – 7 different galaxies from Earth.

FACT 10

In 2016, scientists detected a radio signal from a source 5 billion light-years away.

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