Universal Facts

Did you know?

• That the Sun makes up of 99.86% of the Solar System’s mass. This means that all the planets put together make up just 0.14% of the Solar System’s mass.
• That Jupiter’s magnetic field is so massive that it pours billions of watts into the Earth’s magnetic field everyday.
• That a massive body that was 100km wide travelling at over 512,000 km/h crashed into the Mercury to form the Caloris Basin. The impact was so great that it sent shockwaves around the Mercury and this resulted in the creation of its hilly terrain.
• That just a pinhead of the Sun’s raw material has the ability to kill someone who is 160km away.
• That the duration of the plutonian year is 248 Earth years. This means that it takes Pluto about one quarter of a millennium to go around the Sun once.
• That Olympus Mons (on Mars) is the largest volcanic mountain in the Solar System. It is 600km wide and 27km high.
• That a supernova explosion produces more energy in its first few weeks or months than the Sun during the whole of its 10 billion years lifetime and for that brief period it creates more energy than the rest of the galaxy put together.
• That the comet with longest ever recorded trail is that of the great comet of 1843. Its trail stretched over 800 million km. this is about the distance between the Earth and the Jupiter.
• That the energy that we see today in the sunlight started out in the Sun’s core about 30,000 years ago – it spent most of its time passing through the dense atoms that make the Sun. But, it takes only 8 minutes to reach the Earth from there.
• The heavier elements in your body like Calcium, Iron etc. were formed somewhere in supernova explosions.
• Some rocks on Earth are actually pieces of rocks from Mars.
• Some volcanoes on Jupiter eject matter at speeds of 1km/sec.

 

There are no extra pieces in this universe. Everyone is here because he or she has a place to fill, and every piece must fit itself into the big jigsaw puzzle