12 Amazing Facts About Our Universe
Published by Here’s a short list of some amazing facts about our universe!
1. Saturn’s rings are not solid. Although they appear to be thin, solid rings that surround the planet, Saturn’s rings are actually particles of ice, dust and rock. The particles range from the size of a grain of sand to larger than skyscraper buildings.
2. The Moon is moving slowly away from the Earth at the rate of 3cm per year.
3. The red color of Mars comes from the rusted iron in its soil.
4. The Sun makes up 99.86% of the solar system’s mass.
5. Saturn’s moon, Titan, is larger than the planet Mercury.
6. Other planets have rings too. Saturn’s rings are the only ones visible from Earth.
7. There are more stars in the universe than there are grains of sand on Earth.
8. A comet’s tail always points away from the Sun.
9. At the center of every galaxy, there is a massive black hole! Even our Milky way galaxy has a massive black hole in its center.
10. If you fell into a black hole, you would stretch like spaghetti.
11. The Universe has neither a center nor an edge, because according to Einstein’s theory of relativity, gravity bends all of space time around into an endless curve.
12. There are estimated to be about 100 billion such galaxies in the universe. The nearest spiral galaxy to our milky way is the Andromeda galaxy, which is 2.6 million light years away! This galaxy is on a collision course with our galaxy, and will collide with it in some billion years!
I hope everyone enjoyed these facts and please remember to always be careful around a black hole! Thanks for reading.
Sources Cited:
Amazing Facts About the Universe
Other Writings From This Author:
12 Amazing Facts About The Sun
12 Amazing Facts About The Planet Mercury
14 Amazing Facts About The Planet Venus
Amazing Facts About The Planet Earth
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On August 22, 2010 at 1:43 am
oh, that’s interesting, thanks for sharing these facts, I did not know about them earlier.
On August 22, 2010 at 1:56 am
This is truly amazing. The black hole is interesting.. wonder how it would feel like to stretch like a spaghetti.. like a superhero or something. I just heard from the news that the moon’s getting smaller because of asteroids that continue to hit it, thus scraping almost a hundred meters off its surface. Not visible to the naked eye but yeah, we have a smaller moon now. Just wanted to share. Thanks for this interesting piece J.
On August 22, 2010 at 2:08 am
Thanks Starpisces!!
Lol Likha, I can imagine it wouldn’t feel very good! Would make for a cool picture though! haha. I didn’t know the moon was getting smaller! That’s crazy, thank you for that share!
On August 22, 2010 at 2:56 am
Very interesting! Learned a lot!tnx =p
On August 22, 2010 at 3:09 am
These are interesting facts. Always loved the solar system
thanks!
On August 22, 2010 at 3:23 am
great one….
On August 22, 2010 at 3:29 am
Thanks for share.
On August 22, 2010 at 3:54 am
Thanks Kaye, Phoenix and PSingh (x2)
I like writing articles that someone can learn from instead of ones about celebrities (yuck). I’ve always loved learning about the universe because it always seems to blow my mind!! lol….
On August 22, 2010 at 4:22 am
The universe is certainly fascinating! I enjoyed learning about these facts. Beware of black holes. lol.
On August 22, 2010 at 4:47 am
Lol, yep.. You wouldn’t want to “fall in” to one of those!
On August 22, 2010 at 5:25 am
Great Work
On August 22, 2010 at 4:36 pm
Thanks GodsGrace!!
On August 22, 2010 at 9:00 pm
This is a very cool article with very interesting facts. My favorite planet is Saturn.
On August 22, 2010 at 11:55 pm
Thanks Marlene! Saturn’s my favorite too!
On August 23, 2010 at 2:22 am
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On August 23, 2010 at 2:39 am
A very useful piece, very informative too.
On August 23, 2010 at 3:36 am
Thank you Shilaho!
On August 23, 2010 at 8:29 am
My favorite subject. Please post more. Thanks.
On August 23, 2010 at 11:24 am
Interesting. I did not know that moon moved away. Though, I heard the rest of those things somewhere.
I am unsure about the black holes in centers of all galaxies. I think there are galaxies that don’t have them …
I wouldn’t want to change into spaghetti
By the way, what the **** is that extremely long comment? I read its beginning and end and It seemed pretty strange.
On August 23, 2010 at 10:10 pm
Thanks Brenda! I’m thinking of writing an article on each planet!
Thank you too, Michal! And I’m not sure what that huge comment is about.. I’m thinking of deleting it.. hmmmm
On August 26, 2010 at 7:12 am
wow just a short list of amazing info about our universe but very very interesting facts
i was amazed the the various sizes of particles that comprises saturn rings, that is from grain of sand to very large buildings
very very informative , i like this!!!
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On August 26, 2010 at 11:23 pm
Thank you Lipstick!!
On October 5, 2010 at 3:51 pm
Interesting facts. They were actually new to me. Thanks for the knowledge imparted. Great write-up from a great mind!