USELESS FACTS ABOUT SPACE THAT ARE STILL COOL TO KNOW
Added on: 1st May 2016
CHANGING TASTES AMONG THE STARS
Astronauts’ food preferences change when they’re floating around
space. International Space Station astronaut Peggy Whitson says
her favourite Earth food, shrimp, is positively revolting
to her in space.
AN UNGRATEFUL PRIZE COMMITTEE
One of the most influential cosmologists in history, Edwin Hubble
has a crater, planetarium, asteroid, and even the famous
Hubble Space Telescope named after him. Despite his
contributions to the field of astronomy, Hubble never received
the Nobel Prize because the Nobel Committee did not have a
category for astronomy and refused to include astronomy
with physics at the time.
A SUIT WAY PRICIER THAN VERSACE
A useless space fact for us but useful for the finance team,
the cost of an entire NASA space suit is 12 million dollars.
NEIL ARMSTRONG WASN'T BORN TO BE AN ACTOR
Actors have plenty of lines to remember and only rarely mess
one up. Neil Armstrong had one line to say when he became
the first man on the moon and he botched it. Armstrong was
supposed to say “That’s one small step for a man, one giant leap
for mankind.” He left out the “a”, making the sentence redundant.
BETELGEUSE! BETELGEUSE! BETEL…
The popularly-cited star (and a name you shouldn’t try to say
three times), Betelgeuse is a red star that is so massive its
diameter is larger than the diameter of Earth’s entire
orbit around our best-known star, the sun.
HOW LIKELY WE ARE TO GET HIT WITH SPACE DEBRIS
Our annual risk of getting seriously injured by a piece of space
debris entering the atmosphere and landing on Earth is 1 in
100 billion. If you’re worried about 1,000 ways you could die,
this might not be so useless a space fact after all.
MASSIVE CELESTIAL BODIES
Jupiter’s mass is 2.5 times greater than that of all the other
solar system planets combined. Despite this useless fact,
an even more useless one may be that the sun makes up
99.86% of the mass in the entire solar system.
WATER CAN MIRACULOUSLY FLOAT AROUND SPACE
In a galaxy far, far away – about 10 billion light years to be
more precise – a massive vapour cloud is home to water with
a mass 140 trillion times greater than the mass of all the
water in Earth’s oceans.
VOLUME OF THE MOON IN COMPARISON TO THE EARTH
Compared to Earth bodies, the volume of the moon would
roughly equal the volume of the Pacific Ocean. Maybe an
interesting fact, definitely a useless fact.
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