For many people astronomy is an interesting science filled with many astronomy fun facts. Information such as though a planet’s orbit other stars, were the way galaxies are made up, is included. Bees facts can be entertaining and enlightening.
The Sun is a great source of astronomy fun facts. It’s somewhere between 91 and 94.5 million miles away from our home planet. Scientists are not lazy. Our orbit is elliptical. The distance between us grows larger and smaller throughout the year.
Astronomy fun facts about our average sized sun’s size. 98% of all the matter in our solar system is inside the Sun. Even with Jupiter on our side, we’re still a measly 2% of non “the sun” stuff. About 100 Earths side to side would stretch across the face of the sun. The sun blows its solar wind out to 50 times the distance between the star and our earth.
Are all astronomy fun facts about the sun? What about the moon? It’s the only other space object, besides the earth, over which man has walked. And one human man actually traveled to the moon but never left it. Dr. Eugene Shoemaker loved the moon but 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. In 1988 13% of people questioned believed 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. Talk about an instant diet.
There are astronomy fun facts about faraway objects too. Stars bring the past to life. We’re so far away that the light from the stars may take a million years to reach our eyes. Some of those stars you see may really be images of stars a million years old that aren’t even there in the present. The number of stars in the sky is expressed by a one with 22 zeros following it. That is huge.
There are even more astronomy fun facts. But this article can’t. So get out there and learn about astronomy.