Riveting Space Facts For The Astro Nerds

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Meeeeesh
Oct 6, 2019 12:00 PM EDT

When you start thinking about your life in the grand scheme of things, nothing truly matters because we're all just tiny specks of dust existing on a stupid little rock that's floating in circles around a slightly bigger rock that happens to be on fire. Anyway, ignore that existential bit and enjoy some fascinating nerdy facts about space!

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    Interesting space fact that reads, "If you could compress the Earth down to the size of a marble, it would collapse in on itself and become a black hole."
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    Interesting space fact that reads, "According to astronauts, space smells like seared steak, hot metal and welding fumes."
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    Interesting space fact that reads, "You are the Universe, Expressing itself as a Human for a little while."
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    Interesting space fact that reads, "Earth, as seen from Voyager, 3.7 billion miles away" depicting earth as a tiny dot
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    Interesting space fact that reads, "Our Solar System takes 225 million years to rotate around the Milky Way. The last time Earth was in its current position, dinosaurs were just beginning to roam the Earth."
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    Nature - Olympus Mons on Mars is 27km tall - almost three times the height of Mt. Everest and more than twice the height of Mauna Kea. It is so tall that it essentially sticks out of Mars's atmosphere. It is 550km across at the base so wide that if you were standing at the edge of the caldera, the base of the volcano would be beyond the horizon.
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    Nebula - 1881 ORION NEBULA 2011
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    Text - You are currently on a 4.5 billion year old spaceship. A self sufficient, organic, complex spaceship. You are orbiting a power source that is a million times larger than your ship There are 200 billion more power sources possibly with ships like yours, in your group. There are 40 more groups in your particular neighborhood. Your neighborhood is moving at 2 million miles per hour to an object that is 150 million light years away Welcome to life. It's more exciting when you think on a large
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    Astronomy - If the Andromeda Galaxy were visible. to the naked eye it would be six times larger than the moon in the night sky.
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    Joint - 90% of your body mass is, in fact, stardust, because all the elements except for hydrogen and helium are created in stars.
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    Text - About 1% of the static on your television is caused by Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) radiation left over from the big bang about 13.7 billion years ago.
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    Text - YOU ARE HERE "THERE IS PERHAPS NO BETTER DEMONSTRATION OF THE FOLLY OF HUMAN CONCEITS THAN THIS DISTANT IMAGE OF OUR TINY WORLD." CARL SAGAN
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    Text - According to the best estimates of astronomers, 275 MILLION new stars are born every single day.
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    Earth - did you know? i-yourkno tumbir.com Earth's rotation is slowing at a rate of approximately 17 milliseconds a century, and the length of a day for the dinosaurs was closer to 22 hours.
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    Text - GIVEN ENOUGH TIME HYDROGEN BEGINS TO WONDER WHERE IT CAME FROM AND WHERE IT IS GOING
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    Sky - If you had the ability to take an airplane to Jupiter, it Would take over 350 years to reach it.
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    Astronaut - If we had a sufficiently powerful/precise telescope and a large enough mirror perfectly placed 22 lightyears away... We could watch the Apollo landings happen in real time next year. S.A.GAN Saganet.org Image courtesy of Apollo 11:
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    Text - 10,000 light years from Earth, astronomers have discovered a massive cloud of alcohol more than 463,000,000,000km across. It contains enough alcohol for 400 trillion trillion pints of beer.
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    Galaxy - If you could look out from inside a black hole, you would be able to see the entire universe in one small patch of the sky- |including the back of your own head.
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    Planet - Current estimates suggest that there are up to 400 billion stars in the Milky Way galaxy and up to 50 billion planets. If even 1% of those are in their systems Goldilocks zone, then there are 500 milion planets in our galaxy alone capable of supporting life.
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    Heat - 33 light-years away there is an exoplanet completely covered in burning ice.
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