Astronomy Fun Facts, Bringing Astronomy To The People

Astronomy fun facts abound in this interesting science that explores the universe. This includes information about the size of stars and the distance of our earth from the center of our own Milky Way galaxy. People can get a lot of enjoyment from all of this data. There are many astronomy fun facts about this sun. Our own star that supplies our heat and light is between 91 and 94.5 million miles from Earth. Scientists are not lazy. It’s that the Earth orbits the sun in an elliptical, uneven, orbit. The distance varies depending on where the Earth lies in that orbit. The sun is only average size for a star, yet it’s size is another terrific source of astronomy fun facts. As average as it is it accounts for about 98% of all the matter in the solar system. Even with Jupiter on our side, we’re still a measly 2% of non “the sun” stuff. It would take about 100 Earths to make it across this average sun. An AU is the distance from the Earth to the Sun. The solar winds extend 50 AU’s from the sun. What about astronomy fun facts

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that don’t have to do with the sun? What about the moon? In all the universe man has only walked upon the earth and the moon. And one human man actually traveled to the moon but never left it. Dr. Eugene Shoemaker was rejected as an astronaut. In 1999, after his death of course, his ashes were spread onto the moon. There are more astronomy fun facts about the moon. In a famous nursery rhyme a cow jumped over the moon. Many people, in fact about 13% of those asked in 1988, still believe the moon is made of cheese. The astronauts who walked on the moon wore suits that weighed 180 pounds on earth but a mere 30 pounds on the lunar surface. That is a big difference. There are astronomy fun facts about faraway objects too. Looking at stars is like looking into the past. It can take millions of years foe light from some stars to reach us. Some stars we see may no longer even be there. The number of stars in the sky is expressed by a one with 22 zeros following it. That is huge!

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