Mind-Blowing Space Facts You Need to Know

🌟The Sun, if scaled down, would be the size of a white blood cell, while the Milky Way would be as big as the continental United States.

🚀Only 12 people have been to the Moon, while just three have been to the bottom of the Mariana Trench.

🌌Falling into a black hole would lead to spaghettification, where the gravitational forces stretch and compress you simultaneously.

🌍Jupiter's Great Red Spot is large enough to fit two to three Earths, and it protects Earth from many asteroid impacts.

💫The universe is still in its infancy, and we have yet to see several types of stars and planets that will exist in the future.

How fast do you have to travel to cross the entire Milky Way?

—If you could continuously accelerate at one G, you could cross the entire Milky Way in about 12 years.

What happens if the sun suddenly disappears?

—It would take approximately 8 minutes for us to notice the lack of sunlight or gravity.

Can sound travel through space?

—No, because space is a vacuum, sound waves cannot travel through it.

Is there air in space?

—No, space is mostly empty, and there is no atmosphere to sustain air or transmit sound.

How many galaxies are there in the observable universe?

—There are approximately 100 billion galaxies in the observable universe, and that number is likely to double as our observations improve.

00:02The Sun, if scaled down, would be the size of a white blood cell.

00:35Only 12 people have been to the Moon, while just three have been to the bottom of the Mariana Trench.

02:00Falling into a black hole would lead to spaghettification, where the gravitational forces stretch and compress you simultaneously.

10:52Jupiter's Great Red Spot is large enough to fit two to three Earths.

21:40The universe is still in its infancy, and we have yet to see several types of stars and planets that will exist in the future.