Give Me More Space: 25 Amazing Facts About Space

Mia: Mom! I'm feeling very much bored today! Ahhh. What if we lived in space? We would just wander the whole space in our spaceship!

Mom: You always think of space in every topic! Isn't it?

Mia: Mom. You already know that how passionate am I regarding space and our solar system! I wonder I had any robot or AI( Artificial Intelligence) which would tell me everything about space and our solar system!

Mom: You have a robot to tell about Space!

Mia: Where?

Mom: In front of you!

Mia: Mom!! You will tell me about space? 

Mom: Yes! I was also very much passionate regarding space and all! I had read many space books when I was your age! You can call me the " Space Encyclopaedia"! 

Mia: Great! Please tell me something about space mom!

Mom: Ok!! Before knowing facts let me tell you about what actually space is:-

*Space is the boundless three-dimensional extent to which objects and events have relative position and direction.

So, let me tell you some facts about Space! These are basically some Do You Knows!

1• The Red Planet Mars has the largest volcano of our solar system, Olympus Mons, which we know of! It is even large than Mount Everest!

2• The space is completely silent, there isn't a single noise in the space.

3• Noone in this world knows the exact number of stars in this vast space.

4• A complete NASA spacesuit costs about $12,000,000.

5• In the entire space, there may be a planet that could entirely be made of diamonds! 

6• The first one to step on the moon was Neil Armstrong along with his crew, Buzz Aldrin and Michael Collins. And the footprints on the moon will stay there for 100 million years!

7• In about 3.75 billion years from today, our, Milky way galaxy and our neighboring galaxy, Andromeda Galaxy will collide with each other to form a giant elliptical galaxy.

8• Our Sun's mass takes up about 99.86% of the entire solar system.

9• If you would travel close to even to the speed of light then also, you would still take 1,00,000 years to cross even our Milky way galaxy!

10• It takes 8 minutes and 20 seconds for the sun's light to reach us that is Earth.

11• The Planet Mercury is named after the Roman messenger to the Gods.

12• Jupiter is so large that 1000 Earths could fit inside it!

13• Jupiter has the largest moon of the solar system, Ganymede.

14• The Moon, Titan, is Saturn's moon and Titan is the second-largest moon of the solar system.

15• Saturn has the most number of moons in the solar system ( known: 82, Confirmed: 53, Provisional: 29)

16• Saturn has such low density that it floats on water.

17• Black Holes are formed from nothing but dead stars!

18• The biggest known star of the whole universe is UY Scuti. 

19• There is a comet called, Halley's Comet which passes from near our Earth every 76 years.

20• There is a belt of asteroids between Mars and Jupiter called, Asteroid Belt.

21• Neptune is the coldest planet of our Solar System, including all 8 planets only.

22• Venus is the hottest planet in our Solar System.

23• Venus looked just the same as Earth 2 billion years ago.

24• There is a Black Hole in our Milky Way with a mass equal to Four Billion of our sun!

25• Space is COLD!

So, these were some mind-blowing facts about Space!

Mia: Mom! Space is amazing! Now, I wanna know about the planets and our Solar System!

Mom: Oh. But for today this much is enough! Digest this much knowledge today, I'll tell you about Planets and Solar systems very soon!

Mia: Thanks, Mom!!

Mom: No Thanks!