10 Mindblowing Facts About Space And Astronomy
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03 April 2024
Here are some of the most mindblowing facts about space and astronomy
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Moon is lemon-shaped, you read that right! Moon has flattened poles and slight bulges around its equator on both the side facing Earth and the far side, BBC reported
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The Milky Way smells like rum and taste like raspberries. The scientists made this surprising discovery in 2009 when they found the cloud of our galaxy is full of chemical known as ethyl formate
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Did you know one Mercurian day lasts 59 Earth days, while a year lasts 88?
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The effects of being exposed to space are slightly less dramatic. It turns out, you could survive for a couple of minutes in a leaky spacesuit
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Discovered in 1846, Neptune has only completed a single revolution around the Sun
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Our sun sheds an unimaginably vast number of particles every second - around 1.3 trillion trillion trillion! This equates to a loss of roughly one billion kilograms of mass each second
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Earth isn't spinning quite as fast as it used to! Our planet's rotation is slowing down ever so slightly, making each day a tiny bit longer than the last
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Earth's oceans may not be alone in harboring life! Three moons of Jupiter (Europa, Ganymede, and Callisto) and two moons of Saturn (Enceladus and Titan) are all suspected to have vast under-ice oceans
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Venus is the oddball out! Unlike most planets that spin like a top, Venus rotates in the opposite direction
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Over half of the Sun-like stars in the Milky Way are part of multiple star systems, binaries or triplets, with stars orbiting around a common centre of mass
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