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Our Sun is amongst the 200 to 400 billions of stars as estimated by Scientists that is orbiting in the Milky Way Galaxy. Scientific study proves that there are about 10 billion Solar systems in the Milky Way Galaxy alone, and the Earth is one of the planets that orbits a star in a particular Solar system.
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NASA astronauts and other Space explorers have discovered about 2 trillion Galaxies in our Universe. Just Imagine how small the Milky Way galaxy is.
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Over the years, Astronauts have discovered about hundreds of thousand Exoplanets Orbiting round their stars with the use of Telescopes and some of these Telescopes were; Spitzer Space Telescope, Hubble Space Telescope, Kepler space Telescope, James Webb space telescope and amongst others.
Kepler Space Telescope was said to have discover about thousands of Exoplanets. Searching for tiny dips of starlight as the planets crosses the faces of their stars.
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Though the Sun in our Solar system is big and so vast that it will need about 1. 3 million Earth to fill it’s volume, but it’s not the biggest Star in the Universe. The UY Scuti is considered as the biggest Star in the Universe, that it’s radius is about 1,700 larger than our Sun. Basically, if we can imagine in more simpler terms, then around 5 billions suns could fill inside the UY Scuti!
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Scientist have discovered Earth like exoplanets orbiting round their stars in different Galaxies. Some of these Planets are more massive than our Earth, and some of these planets orbits in their star’s Goldilocks zone, making it not too hot and not too cold for human beings to live in.
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Our Universe is known as the Cosmos, and the stars in our Universe is more than the grains of sand on all the beaches of Earth. According to scientists the Universe was formed 13.8 billion years ago after the Big Bang.
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The black hole is formed when big stars explode in space. Scientist said that its gravitational force is so strong that nothing can escape from it. Luckily, the nearest black hole to our Earth is about 10,000 light years away.
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A day on Mercury last longer than its year! Mercury orbits around the Sun faster than any other planets – making its year equivalent to 88 Earth days, while a day on Mercury last for 176 Earth days.
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The Universe has no center and is constantly expanding every second, making it impossible to reach the edge.
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Astronaut usually wears spacesuits which have to be warmed, cooled, pressurized and supplied with fresh air when venturing into space. One NASA spacesuit is said to cost about 12 million dollars!
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The Universe is overwhelmingly made up of things that cannot be seen. In fact, the stars, planets, galaxies that can be detected only make up 4 percent of the Universe, according to astronomers. The other 96 percent are made up of substances that cannot be seen or easily comprehended. These substances are called Dark matter and Dark energy.
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Astronomers have discovered a water vapor cloud which holds 140 trillion times the mass of water in the Earth’s ocean somewhere around 10 billion light years away. It is the largest discovery of water ever found.
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Our galaxy which is the Milky Way galaxy is set to collide with its neighboring Andromeda galaxy which has a history of devouring other galaxies.
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Footprints of Astronaut would last forever on the surface of the moon, because there is no wind or water to erode them.
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There is a rogue supermassive black hole that is speeding through space at 5 millions miles per hour. Astronomers predict that in 20 million years, it will break out of it’s galaxy and roam the Universe forever.
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Scientist predict that our sun has 5 billion years left to live, however humans most likely have only 1 billion years to live. They also predicted that during the sun final stages of life, it will heat and expand to the point that the oceans of the Earth will start boiling and the earth will become too hot to live in.
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There are about 500,000 pieces of space junks that are floating above the Earth, and they are moving at the speed up to 17,500 miles per hour!
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Astronomers discovered that the Earth slows down it’s rotation every century, which means that our days are not precisely 24 hours each. NASA has reported that the Earth’s rotation actually takes up to 24 hours and 2.5 milliseconds.
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It takes our solar system 230 million years to make an orbit around the Milky Way galaxy. This means we will not make an orbit round the Milky Way galaxy in our lifetime.
