InterestingThere are approximately 3,500 astronomers in the U.S. - but over 15,000 astrologers.2301k17 years ago
Mind-BlowingSaturn's rings stretch about 550,000 miles in circumference but are only 30 feet to half a mile thick—incredibly thin for their vast size.2252k17 years ago
Mind-BlowingTidal forces between the Earth and Moon are slowing the Earth down and pushing the Moon further away.891k14 years ago
Mind-BlowingJupiter emits powerful radio bursts that amateur astronomers can detect with a simple shortwave radio antenna, making it one of the few planets you can 'listen' to from Earth.172k12 years ago
Mind-BlowingThere is a mysterious and loud radio signal known as 'the space roar' that has yet to be explained.162k12 years ago
Mind-BlowingSince 2017, astronomers have discovered dozens of potentially habitable exoplanets, bringing the total to over 60 worlds that might support life.132k11 years ago
Mind-BlowingOutdatedThe ashes of the man who discovered Pluto are currently en route to dwarf planet, scheduled to arrive on the 14th of July, 2015.101k12 years ago
WeirdThe center of the galaxy tastes like raspberries and smells like rum, according to astronomers.83k12 years ago
Mind-BlowingAn international team of astronomers has spotted the farthest known gravitational lens and, as Albert Einstein predicted, it is a galaxy that deflects and intensifies the light of a much further object.81k12 years ago
Mind-BlowingThe dwarf planet Ceres, located in the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter, baffled scientists when NASA's Dawn spacecraft photographed mysterious bright spots on its surface in 2015. The gleaming patches sparked wild theories—from ice volcanoes to alien bases—before researchers discovered they were actually salt deposits left behind by briny water seeping up from an underground ocean.72k12 years ago
Mind-BlowingJupiter's magnetosphere is the largest single structure inside the Solar System. If you could see it with your eyes, it would appear larger than our full Moon.62k12 years ago
Mind-BlowingDeep inside Neptune and Uranus, heat and pressure squeeze carbon from methane into diamonds that sink toward the core. In 2017, scientists at SLAC recreated the conditions and watched diamonds form.6 days ago
Mind-BlowingEvery other planet in the solar system can fit between Earth and the Moon — with roughly 4,400 km to spare.993 months ago
Mind-BlowingIn 1901, sponge divers exploring a 2,000-year-old shipwreck off Greece hauled up a corroded lump of bronze. Decades of scanning revealed what it was: a mechanical computer of around 30 interlocking gears that tracked the Sun, Moon and planets and predicted eclipses. Nothing this complex appears again for more than a thousand years.6 days ago