UNIVERSE - INTERESTING FACTS

 

• Our solar system’s biggest mountain is on Mars.

• Space has no atmosphere.
• Sound cannot travel in space as there is no medium

• The nearest star to earth is 4.2 light-years away.

• A spoonful of a neutron star weighs about a billion-ton.

• You can't cry on space, because your tears won't ever fall.

• In 1977 we received a signal from deep space that lasted 72 seconds. We still don't know how or where it came from.

• Saturn's rings are not solid. They are made up of bits of Ice. Dust and Rock.

• A single day in planet Venus is longer than its year.
• Venus takes 243 Earth days to rotate once on its axis. The planet's orbit around the Sun takes 225 Earth days.)

• The Milky Way is a huge city of stars, so big that even at the speed of light, it would take 100,000 years to travel across it.

• Black holes are so dense that even the light cannot escape.