Naked Space

Stars twinkle because of the way light is disrupted as it passes through Earth’s atmosphere Starlight is affected by the winds in our atmosphere as it enters, as well as being affected by different areas and temperatures. This causes the light from each star to twinkle as we look at them.

Stars twinkle because of the way light is disrupted as it passes through Earth’s atmosphere Starlight is affected by the winds in our atmosphere as it enters, as well as being affected by different areas and temperatures. This causes the light from each star to twinkle as we look at them.

Most Sun-like stars in our galaxy are in multiple star systems Our Sun may be a single star, but it is in the minority. Over half of the Sun-like stars in the Milky Way are part of multiple star systems, binaries or triplets, with stars orbiting around a common centre of mass. Most lower-mass stars like red dwarfs, however, live alone without a companion.

The closest galaxy to us is the Andromeda Galaxy – it’s estimated at 2.5 million light-years away Before the discovery of the Andromeda Galaxy, the Large Magellanic Cloud was believed to be the closest galaxy to us.

There are more stars in space than there are grains of sand in the world There are 10 times more stars in the night sky than grains of sand on the Earth, with 70 sextillion stars being visible from Earth through a telescope. To put that in numbers, 70 sextillion is this: 70,000,000,000,000,000,000,000.

At any given moment, there are at least 2,000 thunderstorms happening on Earth Worldwide, there are an estimated 16 million thunderstorms each year. Roughly 100,000 of these thunderstorms happen in the U.S. alone.

Halley’s Comet will pass over Earth again on July 26, 2061 This space fact is one for kids to look forward to! The famous comet was last seen on February 9, 1986, and only orbits the Earth once every 75 – 76 years.

The Black Arrow is the only British satellite to be launched using a British rocket Black Arrow was developed during the 1960’s and was used for four launches between 1969 and 1971. In 2019 it was retrieved from its crash landing site in the Australian outback and put on a display Penicuik, Scotland.