Space Facts #1

A region of space that has a ridiculous reservoir of water. The tallest mountain in our Solar System. The first ever black hole image. Here's some random facts about space.

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[Lloyd-Smith]

Quote: "if we define our solar system as the Sun and everything that primarily orbits the Sun, Voyager 1 will remain within the confines of the solar system until it emerges from the Oort cloud in another 14, 000 to 28, 000 years".

"It's a very fine point and many people don't realize the Oort cloud is in interstellar space AND it's considered part of the solar system. We knew many media would make the error and we tried to make it clear in interviews. And you're right -- none of our materials say we've exited the solar system". - NASAJPL, OP of the AMA.

[nicolasibarra]

Don't let nestle touch that water

[SnakierElm]

This is something I'd watch for hours

[theunknown]

Fun fact: Pluto hasn't completed a single orbit of the sun since it's discovery in 1930. It will complete one orbit in 2178.

[ZackTheBBHOffical]

the scary thing about Olympus mons is that its so tall its sticking out of mars you’ll legit be in space if you climb to the top of that thing

[Zyercka]

Fun Fact: The Sun has no fire on it. Fire needs oxygen to form, since there is no oxygen in space, fire can't form. It may look like fire, but it is actually plasma.

[publicstaticvoid]

Proxima Centauri is the star, the closest system is Alpha Centauri

[Kilo]

Fun fact: Voyager 1 launched in 1977, (46 years) traveling roughly 38 thousand miles an hour, the farthest man made object humans have. Yet light would catch it in just 22 hours.

[jeffreygates]

Olympus Mons is an interesting mountain. It's the tallest in the solar system, but if one was to walk up the mountain they would find it rather easy to do. It gradually builds up elevation but the incline has no effect. A person could walk all the way up without feeling that they ever left the ground.

[robertvasquez]

Voyager has been traveling for years at a high speed and it's still has gotten nowhere lol that's crazy. It's hard to wrap your head around how big space actually is

[ihtfp]

Voyager 1 and 2 are both outside of our solar system. Does that mean I am ... 28k years old?

[mylifemyrules]

"Why do wanna become an astronaut?"

*Because I want to discover things humanity is not able to*

[DrakoNoHoe]

You really gotta crush my interstellar traveling dreams like that

[l.cstars]

6 year old Me being told that the sun will blow up in 4billion years:😟

[randomperson-]

Another fact: they managed to get another photo of a black hole, which is Sagittarius A*, the supermassive black hole in the center of our own Milky Way galaxy.

[jasjotdhanjal]

And here we humans are stuck in jealousy, hate and ego as if we are something.

[MikeCoxlongg]

Another fun fact: you can tune a piano but you can't tuna fish. 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

[jetpond]

Fun fact: the deeper you get into Jupiter, the higher the pressure gets, so eventually it gets so high to the point that the gas turns into liquid and forms an ocean of hydrogen and Helium. So basically, Jupiter has the largest ocean in the solar system.

[timmycrw]

I’d like to hear a little bit more about that region of space that contains all that water😮

[wildpleasureswildpleasures]

That’s so beyond me yet so fascinating