23 most amazing and incredible facts about space.

1. If you could put a huge Saturn in the bathroom, it would have floated. The planet is less than the density of water.

2. A teaspoon of neutron star material would weigh on Earth about 112 million tonnes.

3. If you could travel at the speed of light (about 300 000 km. Per second) to go around our galaxy would take you 100, 000 years!

4. Betelgeuse, the brightest star in Orion's left shoulder, she was so big, that if it was located on the site of our Sun, it would engulf the Earth, Mars and Jupiter! In this star dimametre more sun 1,000 times! According to some scholars, to explode in the next 2-3 thousand years. At its peak, the explosion, which will last at least two months, the luminosity of Betelgeuse would be 1050 times greater than the sun, so watch her death could be from Earth with the naked eye.

5. When you look at the Andromeda galaxy (which is at a distance of 2.3 million light-years away), the light that you see before you was 2.3 million years old. Thus, you see the galaxy as it was 2.3 million years ago.

6. The light from the sun is to us 8 minutes, so we can see the sun just as it was 8 minutes ago. It could explode 4 minutes ago, and we do not know about it!

7. Do not spherical shape of the Earth! In fact, it is oblate spheroid, she flattened at the poles and the equator exactly convex towards the axis of its rotation.

8. Jupiter weighs more than all the other planets combined

9. If the sun were the size of a point in the standard offer, the nearest star would be at 16 km. from her.

10. The Earth's gravity squeezes the human spine, so when an astronaut gets into space, he grows about 5 08 cm.
At the same time, his heart contracts, decreasing in volume and begins pumping less blood. This is the response of the body to increase blood volume to normal circulation which requires less pressure.

11. At the equator you 3% lighter than the poles of the fact that the centrifugal force acts on the Earth you.

12. If you are standing on the equator, you are spinning at a rate of about 1, 5 km / h, as well as the Earth, the atoms that spin at 108, 000 km / h around the sun.

13. At the orbit of our planet is the waste dump of space development. Bol 370,000 objects weighing from a few grams to 15 tons orbit around the Earth at a speed of 9834 m / c, facing each other and break into a thousand smaller parts.

14. The mass of the Sun is 99.86% of the mass of the entire solar system, the remaining 0.14% are planets and asteroids.

15. The solar material the size of a pinhead, placed in the atmosphere of our planet, will start at an incredible rate of absorbing oxygen and in a fraction of seconds, destroy all life within a radius of 160 kilometers.

16. Blast (flash) supernova accompanied by the release of the giant amounts of energy. In the first 10 seconds of a supernova exploded produces more energy than the sun in 10 billion years, and over a short period of time produces more energy than all of the objects in the galaxy combined (excluding other erupted supernovae).
The brightness of these stars can easily outshines the luminosity of the galaxies in which they broke.

17. 5 February 1843, astronomers discovered a comet, which was given the name "The Great" (aka the March comet, C / 1843 D1 and 1843 I). Flying close to the Earth in March of the same year, she 'raschertila' half the sky with its tail, the length of which reached 800 million. Km.
Trailing behind the "Great Comet" tail Earthlings watched more than a month, until April 19, 1983, he completely disappeared from the sky.

18. In 2011, astronomers discovered a planet made up 92% of the ultra-dense crystalline carbon - diamond. Precious celestial body that is 5 times bigger than our planet, and the mass of Jupiter is in the constellation Serpens, at a distance of 4000 light years from Earth.

19. In the space tightly pressed metal parts are welded together spontaneously. This is due to the absence of oxides on their surfaces, the enrichment that occurs only in the oxygen-containing medium (a good example of such an environment can serve as the earth's atmosphere). For this reason, experts NASA US National Aeronautics and Space Administration (Eng. National Aeronautics and Space Administration) - an agency owned by the US federal government, reporting directly to the vice-president of the United States and financed 100% from the state budget, is responsible for a civil space program of the country. All the images and videos produced by NASA and departments, including using multiple telescopes and interferometers, are published in the public domain and can be freely copied. All metal parts are treated spacecraft oxidizing materials.
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20. Contrary to popular belief, the cosmos - it's not a total vacuum, but is close enough to it, because 88 gallons of cosmic matter is necessary, at least one atom (and as we know, in a vacuum no atoms or molecules).

21. Venus is the only planet in the solar system, which turns counterclockwise. To this there are several theoretical studies. Some astronomers believe that such a fate befalls all the planet with a thick atmosphere, which first slows down and then spins a celestial body in the opposite side of the initial treatment, while others suggest that the reason was the drop on the surface of Venus Group of large asteroids.

22. Since the beginning of 1957 (the year of the launch of the first artificial satellite "Sputnik 1"), humanity has managed to literally orbit of the planet to plant a variety of satellites, but only one of them was lucky enough to repeat 'the fate of the Titanic'. In 1993, the satellite "Olympus» (Olympus), a European Space Agency (European Space Agency), was destroyed in a collision with an asteroid.

23. The nearest galaxy to us, Andromeda is located at a distance of 2, 52 million. Years. The Milky Way and Andromeda are moving towards each other at tremendous speeds (the speed of the Andromeda is 300 km / s, and the Milky Way 552 km / s) and is likely to face at 2, 5-3 billion. Years.