The Milky Way is believed to contain a few hundred million stellar black holes. Black holes are super fascinating to me, like alone the lines of the Bermuda Triangle and its strange lure. xD

There’s a planet made of diamonds twice the size of earth, 55 Cancri e. It is most likely covered in graphite and diamond.

Hotter stars appear white or blue, whereas cooler stars appear to have orange or red hues. :)

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There are more trees on Earth than stars in the Milky Way. Three trillion trees on Earth vs 100-400 billion stars in the galaxy. And because that maaaybe sounds more like an earth fact lol, my alt fact is Uranus has 27 known moons, and they are named after characters from the works of William Shakespeare and Alexander Pope.

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Space fact: We don't actually know what our own galaxy looks like. The "fact" that its a spiral galaxy is not a fact, its an assumption based on things we can see and deduce about it. The reasons for this is that we are looking at it from the inside out, which makes it hard to tell for sure what it would look like from the outside. Additionally there are clouds of gas that obscure parts of it.

The biggest stars would engulf Saturn

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Space-related fact: The highest mountain known to humans is the Olympus Mons on Mars. It rises ~16 miles above the planet's surface, or about 3x the peak of Mount Everest :o

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Apparently, driving a car to the nearest star at 70 mph would take more than 356 billion years. :o

The sunset on Mars appears blue. 💙

Most Mercurian craters are named after famous writers, artists and composers.

All our planets but earth are named after Roman deities. Also our sun will become a red dwarf upon burning out.

There are 88 official constellations which are recognized by the International Astronomical Union. ⭐

I found this interesting! Jupiter's Great Red Spot is shrinking. Along with being the solar system's largest planet, Jupiter also hosts the solar system's largest storm. Known as the Great Red Spot (since it's big and ruddy-colored), it's been observed in telescopes since the 1600s. Nobody knows exactly why the storm has been raging for centuries, but in recent decades another mystery emerged: the spot is getting smaller.

In 2014, the storm was only 10,250 miles (16,500 km) across, about half of what was measured historically. The shrinkage is being monitored in professional telescopes and also by amateurs, as telescope and computer technology allow high-powered photographs at an affordable cost. Amateurs are often able to make more consistent measurements of Jupiter, because viewing time on larger, professional telescopes is limited and often split between different objects.

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Space fact: Andromeda is getting closer to the Milky Way by 70 miles (110 km) per second. They are supposed to collide in roughly 4,5 billion years. Although since shortly, they say that the "halo" is already merging (as in a very, very, very early stage), or so I've read a few months ago!

Lots of interesting facts popping up here!

One day on Venus is longer than one year.

Venus has a slow axis rotation which takes 243 Earth days to complete its day. The orbit of Venus around the Sun is 225 Earth days, making a year on Venus 18 days less than a day on Venus.

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I think one of the first things I read that really got me hooked about space was that the sun isn't the color we see. Technically as things are, it's white. But if things were perfect, and we could see it as it's "true self" as it's wavelength, It would be green, almost a sort of tealish color. Every since that moment all I could do was imagine what the world would look like with a teal sun beaming down on us.

Edit: to add a link in case you're interested in reading more about it using actual technical terms from people far more intelligent than myself.

The word 'galaxy' is derived from the Greek word galaxias which means "milky," it is a reference to our own galaxy the Milky Way.

Pulsars are tiny little things with incredible mass and intensely fast rotational speed. They emit electromagnetic beams through the poles. Their spin is so regular that astronomers use them as distant timers, and they're helpful for detecting gravitational waves.

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