Beauty of Space

Space as we know it

Space is a word used to describe an area or region. When it comes to outer space it is not so easy to define. Space is a vast region that goes way beyond our planet's atmosphere. It begins around 100 km above sea level Outer space and the universe are almost the same however outer space refers to the area between planets and the universe is the area around planets .

Facts about Space

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• Space is completely silent.
  As there is no atmosphere sound has no medium or way to travel to be heard.
• The hottest planet in our solar system is 450° C
  Venus is the hottest planet in the solar system with an average surfafce temperature of 450 C even though it isn't the closest planet to the sun
• One million earth's can fit in the sun
• The Sun's mass takes up 99.86% of the solar system
  The Sun makes up for 99.86% of the mass in our solar system

• The sunset on Mars appear blue
  According to NASA the susnsets would appear bluish to the human eye on mars Fine dusts that exsist on the planet create that blue hue near the sun's part of the sky
• There are more trees on Earth than stars in the milkyway
  There are about three trillion tress on the Earth currently and approximately 100-400 biliion stars in the galaxy(not to be confused with the universe)
• There are more stars in the universe than grains of sand
  Because of how vast the universe is scientists can only estimate how many stars exsist which comes to around a septilion. In the same way scientists estimate that there are around seven quintillion five hundered quadriliion grains of sand
• One day in Venus is longer than one year on Earth
  Venus has a slow axis rotation that takes 243 Earth days to complete a day. The orbit of Venus around the sun is 225 Earth days meaning a Venus year is 18 days less than a Earth year.

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