Infinity-Science

The speed if light is the cosmic speed limit and always 186,000 miles per second or 300 million meters per second no matter how fast you are travelling when observing it.

If the Sun were the size of a dot over as letter "i", the nearest star would be a dot 10 miles away.

In the core of star burst galaxy M82 or the "Cigar Galaxy", stars birth goes on at as rate 10 times faster than the entire Milky Way Galaxy.

What is at the centre of a gas giant planet like Jupiter? This is one of the key questions astronomers hope to resolve with data from NASA’s Juno mission, currently orbiting Jupiter. Jupiter’s atmosphere is made up of around 90 per cent hydrogen and 10 per cent helium, so computer models suggest its core may be made from metallic hydrogen, a bizarre form of the element thought to exist at extreme pressures.

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The nearest star(s) to Earth that can go supernova is a binary systems IK peg, at 150 light years away.

Halley's Comet is seen after every 76 years i the sky. It was last seen in the year 1986.

The star known as LP 327-186, a so called white dwarf, is smaller than the state of Texas yet so dense that if a cubic inch of it were brought to Earth it would weight more than 1.5 million tons.

The ring of Saturn are so thin that if you shrunk them so that they are as thick as music record, they would still be 8 meters wide.

The surface of the moon is pitted with craters of all sizes up to 250 km in diameter. These have been created by meteorites smashing in to the surface long ago.

The types of galaxies are: Normal spirals, Barred spiral, irregular, Lenticular, Ring, Dwarf & AGN.

The gloves included in the space suit have silicon rubber fingertips which allow the astronaut some sense of touch.

The comets are rich resources for water and carbon-based molecules necessary to sustain life unlike asteroids that are excellent source of minerals.

A magnetar, is a type of neutron star with a magnetic field one quadrillion (one thousand, million, million) times stronger than Earth's. The intense magnetic fields can cause star quakes on the surface of magnetar, releasing powerful flashes of X- rays.

There crew of Apollo 11 who put the first man on the moon have the same initials as the first men on Earth. Armstrong, Aldine, Collins: Adam, Abel, Cain.

Space is not a complete vacuum, there are about 3 atoms per cubic meter of space.