Archive

Topic: Space

Fact Remove the empty space from atoms and humanity fits in a sugar cube Matter is overwhelmingly nothing, held apart by force. 1 min read Fact Space is not silent everywhere There is a real sound in the Perseus galaxy cluster - 57 octaves below middle C. 1 min read Fact Voyager 1 is the most distant human object and still talking Launched in 1977, running on less power than a kettle, replying after 22 hours. 1 min read Fact Our galaxy is falling toward something we cannot see They named it the Great Attractor. It sits behind the Milky Way's own disc. 1 min read Fact Footprints on the Moon will outlast most things on Earth No wind, no rain. They will be legible for millions of years. 1 min read Fact It probably rains diamonds on Neptune Extreme pressure splits methane and the carbon falls as gems. 1 min read Fact The Sun holds 99.86 per cent of the solar system Every planet, moon, asteroid and comet combined is a rounding error. 1 min read Fact Olympus Mons is roughly the size of France Stand on it and the slope is so gentle you might not know you were on a mountain. 1 min read Fact Betelgeuse may already have exploded If it has, the news is still in transit. 1 min read Fact Trillions of neutrinos pass through you every second Right now. And essentially none of them notice you are there. 1 min read