Space facts are alwaysinteresting to learn!!!

As time goes , technological advancements have seen us learn more facts about space in the past century than in all time before that.

We have literally searched the universe for the most amazing space facts, including facts about the planets in our solar system, moons, the Milky Way, and beyond! We’re very sure 100 will make you smile!!!

#26 Neptune moon, Triton, orbits the planet backwards!!!



#27 Triton is gradually getting closer to the planet it.




#28 There are more stars in space than there are grains of sand in the world.


#29 Neptune takes nearly 165 Earth years to make one orbit of the Sun.


#30 Pluto’s largest moon, Charon, is half the size of Pluto.



#31 The International Space Station is the largest manned object ever sent into space.



#32 A day on Pluto is lasts for 153.6 hours long.



#33 Saturn is the second largest planet in our solar system!!!



#34 Any free-moving liquid in outer space will form itself into a sphere.



#35 Mercury, Venus, Earth & Mars are known as the “Inner Planets”.



#36 We know more about Mars and our Moon than we do about our oceans.



#37 The Black Arrow is the only British satellite to be launched using a British rocket.



#38 Only 5% of the universe is visible from Earth.



#39 Light travels from the Sun to the Earth in less than 10 minutes.



#40 At any given moment, there are at least 2,000 thunderstorms happening on Earth.



#41 The Earth’s rotation is slowing slightly as time goes on.



#42 If you were driving at 75 miles per hour, it would take 258 days to drive around Saturn’s rings.



#43 Outer Space is only 62 miles away.



#44 The International Space Station circles Earth every 92 minutes The speed of the ISS is roughly 17,150 miles per hour – that equates to 5 miles a second



#45 Stars twinkle because of the way light is disrupted as it passes through Earth’s atmosphere.



#46 We always see the same side of the Moon, no matter where we stand on Earth.



#47 There are three main types of galaxies: elliptical, spiral & irregular.



#48 There are approximately 100 thousand million stars in the Milky Way.



#49 Using the naked eye, you can see 3 – 7 different galaxies from Earth.



#50 In 2016, scientists detected a radio signal from a source 5 billion light-years away.

It means that when the signal started its journey, Earth didn’t even exist,think from how far the Signal came.

To Be Continued...