🌟 space facts !! 🌟
1. Venus spins backward, and we don't know why
2. Saturn is not the only planet with rings, Jupiter, Uranus, Neptune and the Earth have them too.
4. The Earth's rings are made of cosmic waste.
5. Nitrogen is a part of the composition of the stars, and of our dna.
6. Most of the stars we admire at night are actually dead.
7.The space probe Voyager 1 was send into space in 1977 with a special message for our neighbors of outer space. It was a disc that features pictures, sounds of the earth such as whale, a baby crying and greetings in 55 languages.
8. Venus is the brightest planet of our system, she is often mixed up with a star.
9. It's pretty easy to observe some planets such as mars, venus, jupiter, Saturn at night. It only require a clear night some patience + an app such as skywiew (free on appstore !) can be useful too.
10. If we were on the center of a black hole time would speed up so fast we would live the end of the universe.
11. Shooting stars don't exists, they are actually meteors showers.
12. Jupiter has 67 moons, Saturn 62, Uranus 27, Neptune 14, Mars 2 and the Earth 1.
13. Kepler 22 is an exoplanet also called super-earth that could (potentially) be habitable
14. It rains diamonds on Jupiter + Uranus
15. The moon moves 4cm further each year.
16. There used to be water on Mars, because her and the Earth had a similar beginning.
17. There's trace of organic life on Titan (one of saturn's moon).
18. Voyager 1 (launched in 1977) is closed to leave our solar system.
19. There's a vast ocean underneath the ice of Europa (one of Jupiter's moon).
20. Pluto was discovered in 1930 by Clyde Tombaugh, in 2015 the probe new horizon approached pluto with the ashes of Tombaugh inside.
21. Pluto is smaller than the earth's moon.
22. Saturn could float into water.
23. Our cosmic adress is : planet earth, the earth-moon system, the solar system, the milky way galaxy, the local group, the virgo supercluster.
