Bizarre Space
FACTS
If the Sun stopped producing energy today, we wouldn't
know about it for ten million years.
On a clear night in the autumn you can see two million
years back in time.
The first living creature to orbit the Earth was a dog
called Laika.
People in space are up to 5 centimeters taller than they
are on Earth. Without the effect of gravity pressing them
down, their vertebrae (sections of their spine) move a
little further apart.
The footprints that Neil Armstrong and the other astronauts
left on the surface of the Moon will still be there in a
million years' time.
Jupiter is so big you could fit the Earth inside it 1300
times over.
On the Sun a person would be as heavy as an elephant is
on Earth. The Sun is 330,000 times more massive than the
Earth, so its gravity is very strong.
FACTS
If the Sun stopped producing energy today, we wouldn't
know about it for ten million years.
On a clear night in the autumn you can see two million
years back in time.
The first living creature to orbit the Earth was a dog
called Laika.
People in space are up to 5 centimeters taller than they
are on Earth. Without the effect of gravity pressing them
down, their vertebrae (sections of their spine) move a
little further apart.
The footprints that Neil Armstrong and the other astronauts
left on the surface of the Moon will still be there in a
million years' time.
Jupiter is so big you could fit the Earth inside it 1300
times over.
On the Sun a person would be as heavy as an elephant is
on Earth. The Sun is 330,000 times more massive than the
Earth, so its gravity is very strong.
