Unbelievable Facts About The Universe! (Miscellaneous)

Antares is about 420 million kms in diameter, which is 300 times the width of the sun.
The gravitational field inside a black hole is so strong that it can swallow anything in the universe, even a passing star and its light. If an objest weighing 1 kg is brought to within 6 m of a black hole, it would weigh a million million tonnes.
The surface of the moon is pitted with craters of all sizes upto 250 km in diameter. These have been created by meteorites smashing into the surface long ago.
The largest Volcano in the solar system is on Mars Olympus Moons, 600 km wide and 24,000 m high, is nearly three times higher than Mt. Everest.
Quassars are stupendous power houses. They give out as much energy as hundreds of galaxies from a volume of space only a light year across.
Halley's comet is seen after every 76 years in the sky. It was last seen in the year 1986.
The sun is a 5 billion years old star and is supposed to remain exist for another 5 billion years.
Jupiter planet is mostly made of gases.
Unlike other planets in the solar system, Venus spins not from west to east, but from east to west.
A new and tiny moon of jupiter revolves around the planet in just over 7 hours - making it the fastest moon in the solar system.
More than 75 million meteors enter the earth's atmosphere every day, but they disintegrate before hitting the ground.
Mars is called the Red planet because it's surface is red.
Pluto is the smallest and coldest planet among all ten planets.
Sirus star is much brighter than the sun. In fact, no star is as bright as sirus.
A person of 60 kgs weight barely will weigh 10 kg on moon, but 1,680 kg on the sun.

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Rudra says:
2 years ago

Good information about the universe. Didnt know most of the things.

ksha16 says:
2 years ago

Hey! Check out the link about the Dinosaurs that appears on this page from Google! I think the Sea Monsters trailer on that NatGeo page is really cool! Thanks for leading me to it through this great hub cleanclover!

Take Care,

Ksha16

ksha16 says:
2 years ago

Hey! Check out the link about the Dinosaurs that appears on this page from Google! I think the Sea Monsters trailer on that NatGeo page is really cool! Thanks for leading me to it through this great hub cleanclover!

Take Care,

Ksha16

ksha16 says:
2 years ago

Sorry I just realized the ads keep changing all the time :-( Nevertheless, you can check it out at natgeo whenever you get the time.

Ksha16

krystalkane says:
2 years ago

Hi Cleanclover,

Thanks for these hubs! I did not know some of them, though I did not a few of them :-) Well, I am inspired with the books that Amazon has put up in its ads and I think I am going to buy me a book about the universe. It has been a long time since I read one :-(

KrystalKane