Space is mysterious and beautiful, understand it more with this list of one hundred interesting facts about space, planets, moons and stars!
- Mercury and Venus are the only two planets in our solar system that do not have any moons.
- If a star passes too close to a black hole, it can be torn apart.
- Enceladus, one of Saturn’s smaller moons, reflects some 90% of the sunlight, making it more reflective than snow!
- The Sun is over 300,000 times larger than Earth.
- 64 moons orbit Jupiter
- The Martian day is 24 hours 39 minutes and 35 seconds.
- The Sun makes a full rotation once every 25-35 days.
- The force of gravity can sometimes cause comets to tear apart.
- According to mathematics, white holes are possible, although as of yet, we have found none.
- Our moon is around 4.5 billion years old.
- Uranus’ blue glow is down to the methane in its atmosphere, which filters out all the red light.
- The four planets in our solar system that are known as gas giants are Jupiter, Neptune, Saturn and Uranus.
- According to mathematics, white holes are possible, although as of yet, we have found none.
- Pluto is smaller than the Earth’s moon!
- A day on Pluto lasts for 6 days and 9 hours
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