15 Amazing Facts About Space That Will Blow Your Mind
Space is completely silent If you shouted as loud as you could in space, nobody would hear you. That’s because space has no air, and sound needs air to travel. Without air molecules to carry the sound, everything becomes totally silent. A day on Venus is longer than a year on Venus Venus spins very slowly. It takes more time for Venus to rotate once on its axis than it does to orbit the Sun. This means a single day on Venus is longer than one Venus year. It is one of the strangest facts in our solar system. There are more stars in the universe than grains of sand on all the beaches on Earth Scientists believe there are trillions of galaxies in the universe, and each galaxy has billions of stars. When you add all of that together, the number becomes so huge that it’s hard for the human brain to even imagine it. Neutron stars are incredibly dense A neutron star forms when a massive star explodes and collapses into itself. Even though it might only be about 20 kilometers w...