25 interesting and amazing facts about the universe and space

♣ Scientists have found a mysterious planet in the space which is totally made up of diamond. Scientists have given this astonishing planet the name as 55 Cancri E.

♣ Time does not run under the rings of the Black Hole present in the universe.

♣ The nearest Black Hole is 1600 Light Years far from the Earth.

♣ Most planets rotate on their axes anti-clockwise direction, but Venus rotates clockwise and complete its one rotation in every 243 Earth days - the slowest rotation of any planet.

♣ One day on Venus is longer than the one year on it. Because its rotation period (243 Earth days)is longer than its revolution period(224.7 earth days).

♣ On Venus, it snows metal and rains Sulphuric acid.

♣ We always see the same side of the moon, from any part of the Earth.

♣ Moon is moving away from Earth at a rate of 1.6 inches per year.

♣ The footprints of our astronauts on the moon will remain unchanged for the next 10 crore years because there is nothing on the moon which can replace the footprint particle from one place to another.

♣ Halleys' Comet will pass over Earth again on 26th July 2061.

♣ Some larger asteroid even has its own moon.

♣ Chariklo, an asteroid that has rings around it, like Saturn.

♣ There are Giant Clouds of Alcohol floating in space. It is discovered in 1995, the cloud is 1000times larger than our solar system. It contains enough ethyl to fill 400 trillion pints of beer.

♣ Bruce McCandless, the NASA astronaut who was the first person to walk freely and untethered in space. In February 1984, he travelled more than 90 m (300feet) away from the space shuttle Challenger during the spacewalk.

♣ The first selfie in space was taken by NASA astronaut Buzz Aldrin while on a spacewalk during the Gemini 12 mission on November 12, 1966.

♣ New study examines that astronauts' height increases by 2.25 inches during space travel.