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Scroll down to learn some
interesting facts about Astronomy &
Activate your
Astronomical Minds
If your spacesuit started leaking, you could survive for a couple of minutes
Neptune has only completed one
orbit around the Sun, since its
discovery (1846).
One orbit=165 years.
In space, astronauts' parts of
feet skin will eventually fall off
because of the
weightless environment
The sun is 400 times larger than the moon but is 400 times further away from Earth, making them appear the same size
The biggest volcano that we
know of is Olympus Mons, in
Mars. It is triple the height of
Mount Everest.
Our Sun is one of over 100 billion stars in the Milky Way galaxy, and the Milky Way is one of over 100 million galaxies in the universe.
Are we really
this small?!?!
Space isn't that far away. In
theory, if you could drive your
car upwards, you could be there
in less than an hour.
It would take hundreds of thousands
of moons to equal the brightness of
the sun. The brightness ratio of the
sun vs the moon is:
398,110 to 1
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WOOOHOOO
May 2nd
is celebrated as
World Astronomy Day
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