Cosmic Chronicles Fascinating Facts About Space
1.The sky appears blue from Earth but appears black to astronauts.
2. If two pieces of metal touch each other in space, they become permanently joined.
3. Weakness occurs due to lack of gravity in space. This happens to every person who goes to space.
4. If a person is left in space without protection, he cannot survive for more than 2 minutes.
5. In space, there is mainly a plasma of hydrogen and helium, electromagnetic radiation, magnetic field, neutrino dust and cosmic rays.
6.When an astronaut returns from space, his height increases by 2 inches.
7. There is no atmosphere in space, hence sound does not reach there, hence space is absolutely silent.
8.Except hydrogen and helium, everything found on Earth is made of star dust.
9. Only one spacecraft has reached Pluto so far, New Horizons. It was launched on January 19, 2006. On July 14, 2015, it passed near Pluto for a few hours and took many photographs.
10.There are now 200 stars in our galaxy. The largest galaxy is IC 1101 which has 100 trillion stars.
11.Metals can melt together in space without heat or electricity. There is no atmosphere to interfere with this process.
12. 68% of space consists of dark energy and 27% of the universe is dark matter.
13.Olympus Manas, the mountain of Mars, its height is 21.9 kilometers. Beyond this, Mount Everest also seems insignificant.