Interesting facts about space, galaxies, planets, moons and other solar system objects. Explore the universe through interesting diagrams, photos and more!

Facts About Stars There are 9,096 stars visible to the naked eye in the entire sky. To see more, you have to use a telescope to reveal stars fainter than your eyes can see.

Facts about the Solar System. See the planets and the dwarf planets pages for more information or click an image below to find out more about the solar system’s structure:

The initial “glow” of the Big Bang can be seen throughout space today as the cosmic microwave background radiation (CMB). Because the universe has now expanded out beyond 13.7 billion light-years, there are areas we will never be able to detect. They are beyond our “visual horizon”.

Galaxy Facts A galaxy is a massive, gravitationally bound system that consists of stars, stellar objects (such as brown dwarfs and neutron stars), nebulae, an interstellar medium of gas and dust, black holes , and an unknown component of dark matter.

2013年6月10日 · Here’s a list of my 5 favourite interactive space visualisations that are both fantastically put together and visualise a particularly cool aspect of space or astronomy, I hope you like them. OMG Space – A scrolling map of the Solar System, beginning with the Sun at the top of the page and ending with Eris at the bottom, with all the ...

Facts about the Planets. Mercury’s craters are named after famous artists, musicians and authors. Venus is the hottest planet in the solar system. Earth’s atmosphere protects us from meteoroids and radiation from the Sun. There have been more missions to Mars than any other planet. Jupiter has more than double the mass of all the other ...

2014年6月18日 · Related space facts: 62 comments Christopher Rader says: September 29, 2014 at 2:39 pm. Thank you your helping me in my class. Reply. preeya says: March 24, 2015 at 11:23 pm. what work do you do in class. Reply. dobby says: October 8, 2015 at 8:38 pm. This really DID NOT HELP ME AT ALL. Reply. kiki says: October 29, 2015 at 8:51 pm.

2012年7月30日 · A collection of cool facts about the Sun and all the planets in our solar system (sorry Pluto). The Sun makes up 99.86% of the Solar System’s mass. Mercury is named after the Roman messenger to the Gods. Venus spins in the opposite direction to most planets. The Earth is 149,598,262 km from the Sun.

2013年5月9日 · What’s the purpose of the 2nd facts graphic with the white background and false colors for sun and planets?