🪐 Space is amazing. The sheer vastness of it, along with the trillions upon trillions of objects in the many billion galaxies of the universe is incomprehensible to the human brain.
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1. Nobody knows how many stars are in space.
2. Space is completely silent.
3. A full NASA space suit costs $12,000,000.
4. One day on Venus is longer than one year.
5. The Moon was once a piece of the Earth.
6. The Sun’s mass takes up 99.86% of the solar system.
7. Mercury and Venus are the only planets with no moons.
8. Saturn has 82 known moons and counting.
9. Earth’s Moon is the fifth largest moon in the solar system.
10. Jupiter is a failed star.
11. There are more stars in the universe than all the grains of sand on Earth.
12. The Sun will engulf Earth 5 billion years from now.
13. There are 2,000,000,000,000 galaxies in the observable universe.
14. The International Space Station (ISS) is about as wide as a soccer field.
15. Astronauts grow taller in space.
16. As of 2021, more than 600 people have been in space.
17. The outer space is very cold with a temperature of around -454.75 °F (-270.42 °C).
18. Sunsets on Mars are blue.
19. The Apollo astronauts' footprints on the moon could last up to 100 million years.
20. You would last about 15 seconds in space without a spacesuit.