Infinity-Science

On the equator you are about 3% lighter than at the poles, due to the centrifugal force of the Earth spinning.

The Earth orbits the sun at an average speed of 107,220 kms per hour.

A gamma ray burst is a cataclysmic blast from an exploding massive star, it puts out more energy in a few milliseconds than the Sun will emit in 10 billion years

Scientists estimate a billion could be the number of available planets suitable for life. If the chances of the right conditions and elements coming together to form life were just one in a billion, then life would arise on a billion planets

A bucket filled with earth would Weigh about five times more than the same bucket filled with the substance of the sun. However, the force of Gravity is so much greater on the sun that a man Weighing 150 pounds on our planet would Weigh 2 tons on the sun.

The scientific term whereby one galaxy gravitationally disturbs another is called galaxy harassment

Mars has about 15% of Earth's volume and 11% of the Earth's mass.

December 1972 U.S. astronaut Eugene Cernan becomes the last person to set foot on the moon.

Brown dwarfs have atmospheres almost like planets do, and that air is filled with methane, steam, and sometimes even vaporized iron for hotter ones! In cooler brown dwarfs it rains molten iron droplets!

The sun gets hot because it is so big that the pressure in its core is so tremendous – enough to force the nuclei of hydrogen atoms to fuse to make helium atoms. This nuclear reaction is like a gigantic atom bomb and it releases huge amounts of heat.

Jupiter's huge magnetic field is 14 times stronger than Earth's, and has 20,000 times more energy

The Milky Way galaxy looks the brightest when viewed in the direction of the constellation of Sagittarius, towards the center of galaxy.

There is a vast super cluster of galaxies in the direction of the constellations Perseus and Pegasus that is over 1,000 million light-years long, and is the largest super cluster known. In 1989, astronomers found another structure called the "Great Wall". It is a collection of galaxies some 500 million light-years long, 200 million light-years wide, and 15 million light-years thick

All 27 of Uranus moons are named after William Shakespeare and Alexander Pope characters.

The ideas of Copernicus came not from looking at the night sky, but from studying ancient astronomy.

A gamma-ray burst, if directly pointed at Earth, could cause major damage from up to 10,000 light-years away. So far, the closest gamma ray burst on record, known as GRB 031203, was 1.3 billion light-years away. Gamma ray bursts are thought to be the most powerful blasts in the Universe.

Saturn's water/ice geyser moon Enceladus is about the size of England

Hubble's law showed that Universe is getting bigger – and so must have started very small. This led to the idea of Big Bang.