10 cool facts about space for kids

1) If you could travel a plane to Pluto, it would take over 800 years!

2) One million Earths could fit inside the Sun, and the Sun is deemed a medium-sized star.

3) There are more stars in the cosmos than there are grains of sand on all of Earth's beaches combined. That's more than a billion trillion!

4) For many years, Earth was thought to be the only world in our solar system with liquid water. NASA recently unveiled the most compelling evidence yet that there is intermittent running water on Mars!

5) Space junk is defined as any man-made object orbiting the Earth that no longer serves a beneficial purpose. Scientists estimate that there are approximately 500,000 pieces of space junk today, including rocket and satellite fragments as well as everyday items such as spanners dropped during the building of the International Space Station!

6) Comets are debris, ice, and carbon dioxide remnants from the formation of our solar system about 4.5 billion years ago.

7) Vesta, an asteroid, has the highest peak known to man. It is three times the height of Mount Everest, measuring a massive 22km in height!

8) The Mars sunset looks blue.

9) You couldn't step on Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, or Neptune because they don't have solid surfaces!

10) Once a year, an asteroid the size of a car hits Earth's atmosphere, but it burns up before it reaches us. Phew!


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