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Month: August 2026

Fact There is a cloud of alcohol in space Billions of kilometres across, and mostly the kind you should not drink. 1 min read Fact Old TV static was partly the birth of the universe A small percentage of that snow was radiation from 380,000 years after the Big Bang. 1 min read Fact The observable universe is far wider than its age in light years 13.8 billion years old. About 93 billion light years across. Nothing broke the speed limit. 1 min read Fact Saturn is less dense than water Find a bath big enough and the planet would float in it. 1 min read Fact A teaspoon of neutron star would weigh about a billion tonnes An entire sun's worth of matter, crushed into something the size of a city. 1 min read Fact There are more trees on Earth than stars in the Milky Way Roughly three trillion trees. Perhaps a few hundred billion stars. 1 min read Fact Days were shorter when dinosaurs were alive Late Cretaceous days ran about 23 and a half hours. Growth rings in shells recorded it. 1 min read Fact The Moon is drifting away from us About 3.8 centimetres a year, and it is slowing Earth's spin as it goes. 1 min read Fact Sunlight is tens of thousands of years old before it leaves the Sun Eight minutes to reach you. Far longer to reach the surface. 1 min read Fact A day on Venus is longer than its year The planet turns so slowly that it laps its own calendar. 1 min read