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Every night you and your bed travel 858,240km around the sun and 6,256,000km around the Milky Way Galaxy. Sweet dreams.
If you could run at the speed of light, you could complete 7,104 full marathons in 1 second.
In the time taken for Pluto to complete one revolution around the Sun, Mercury will have orbited over 1,000 times.
If you could travel the speed of light (186,000 mps), it would still take 100,000 years to cross the Milky Way Galaxy.
Venus rotates on its axis opposite to Earth. That means on Venus the Sun would appear to rise in the West and set in the East.
Pluto's orbit around the Sun is so great that driving it in your car at 100km/h would take you 41,980 years to complete.
Jupiter is so big, you could fit 1,321 Earths inside of it.
The mysterious hexagon at Saturn's north pole is 2.5 times the diameter of the Earth and harbours a furious storm.
“Astronomy compels the soul to look upward, and leads us from this world to another.” - Plato
“Space exploration is a force of nature unto itself that no other force in society can rival.” — Neil deGrasse Tyson
"The purpose of life is the investigation of the Sun, the Moon, and the heavens." — Anaxagoras
"Do not look at stars as bright spots only. Try to take in the vastness of the universe." — Maria Mitchell
"Equipped with his five senses, man explores the universe around him and calls the adventure Science." — Edwin Hubble
“The solar system should be viewed as our backyard, not as some sequence of destinations that we do one at a time.” - Neil deGrasse Tyson
"To confine our attention to terrestrial matters would be to limit the human spirit." — Stephen Hawking
"Space isn't remote at all. It's only an hour's drive away, if your car could go straight upwards." — Sir Fred Hoyle
Saturn is not the only planet in the Solar System with rings. Jupiter, Uranus, and Neptune have rings as well.
The mysterious hexagon at Saturn's north pole is 2.5 times the diameter of the Earth and harbours a furious storm.
It takes 165 years for Neptune to orbit the Sun, meaning it has only recently completed its first orbit since its discovery in 1846.
A new star is born in our galaxy roughly every 18 days.
The Sun makes up 99.86% of the solar system's mass.
Venus spins in the opposite direction to most planets.
Jupiter is so big, you could fit 1,321 Earths inside of it.
Saturn has the second largest moon in the solar system: Titan.
"Space isn't remote at all. It's only an hour's drive away, if your car could go straight upwards." — Sir Fred Hoyle
“We live in a changing universe and few things are changing faster than our conception of it.” – Timothy Ferris
"The purpose of life is the investigation of the Sun, the Moon, and the heavens." — Anaxagoras
“It is far better to grasp the universe as it really is than to persist in delusion, however satisfying and reassuring.” – Carl Sagan
“I know nothing with any certainty, but the sight of the stars makes me dream.” - Vincent Van Gogh
“Although the stars do not speak, even in being silent they cry out.” ― John Calvin
“The stars, they are as the sun. Each star. Every star. And those spheres- they are worlds, realms, each one different yet the same.” ― Steven Erikson
“The more of us that feel the universe, the better off we will be in this world.” ― Neil deGrasse Tyson
Uranus is the coldest planet in the solar system.
Neutron stars can rotate up to 500 times in 1 second.
The distance between the Earth and the Earth's moon can fit all of the planets in the solar system between them.
The pistol star is the most luminous star known and is 10 million times the brightness of the Sun.
A dwarf star is so dense that it would take 8 men to lift a single teaspoon of its matter.
All flags by astronauts placed on the moon are now white due to radiation from the Sun.
Saturn's rings are 282,000km wide but less than 1km thick.
Saturn has the lowest density of all the planets in the solar system. If you put Saturn in a pool of water, it would float!
“We live on this speck called Earth - think about what you might do, today or tomorrow - and make the most of it.” — Neil deGrasse Tyson
“Space exploration is a force of nature unto itself that no other force in society can rival.” — Neil deGrasse Tyson
“We are part of this universe; we are in this universe, but perhaps more important than both of those facts, is that the universe is in us.” ― Neil deGrasse Tyson
"Do not look at stars as bright spots only. Try to take in the vastness of the universe." — Maria Mitchell
"Equipped with his five senses, man explores the universe around him and calls the adventure Science." — Edwin Hubble
“The solar system should be viewed as our backyard, not as some sequence of destinations that we do one at a time.” - Neil deGrasse Tyson
"To confine our attention to terrestrial matters would be to limit the human spirit." — Stephen Hawking
"Space isn't remote at all. It's only an hour's drive away, if your car could go straight upwards." — Sir Fred Hoyle
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