The interesting facts about space

Space, perhaps, is at the moment one of the biggest riddles for all mankind. People are not tired to investigate space, to discuss it, to put forward the most various theories, to build the most various assumptions, but all the same space remains something improbable, mysterious, unknown up to the end. And whether it has an end which it is possible to reach, being guided by science? Most likely, no. Possibly, space throughout all existence of mankind will remain to a degree a riddle, an unsolvable riddle as if a huge Sphinx which question will not turn out to answer. But nevertheless it is studied, and therefore we know many interesting facts of space which strike, and at times and frighten. Let's get acquainted a little more in detail with some interesting facts about space and the Universe.

The interesting facts about space

1. Every year in our Galaxy about forty new stars are born. How many they appear in all Universe – difficult even to imagine the answer to this question.
2. The silence as there is no environment for distribution of a sound reigns in space. So that who likes to keep silent space for certain would have on temper.
3. For the first time the person looked at space via the telescope about four centuries ago. It was, of course, Galileo Galilei.
4. Surprisingly, but in space all flowers familiar to us will smell absolutely in a different way. And all because the smell of a flower depends on a set of various factors of the environment.
5. The interesting fact about space and planets – the sun is more than earth approximately by hundred ten times. It is more even, than Jupiter which, as we know, is giant of our Solar system. But at the same time, if to compare the Sun to other stars in the Universe, then it will be incredibly tiny. For example, the star the Big dog is more than Sun in one and a half thousand times.
6. The first terrestrial being in space – a dog of Like who was started in space on Satellite-2 in 1957. The dog died by the ship because of the shortage of air. And the satellite burned down in the atmosphere of Earth because of violation of the orbit.
7. The first person in space – Yury Gagarin. With small to delay after Gagarin Alan Shepard – the American astronaut departed to space.
8. The first woman in space – Valentina Tereshkova.
9. The most part of atoms of which human bodies consist were formed during melting of star weight.
10. On Earth, thanks to gravitation presence, the flame aspires in the direction up, and in space it extends in all directions.
11. The person will never be able to reach edge of the Universe as at space there is a curvature of space because of which the person, moving constantly in the direct direction, as a result will return to a starting point. Scientists up to the end meanwhile are not able to explain this phenomenon.
12. On average the distance between stars is equal to thirty two million millions kilometers.
13. The interesting fact about black holes in space – they are the brightest objects in the Universe. In general gravitation in a black hole of such force that from there even light cannot escape. But at the rotation, the black hole absorbs not only various space bodies, but also gas clouds which begin to shine, twisting on a spiral. Meteors also begin to burn, getting to a black hole.
14. About ten tons of cosmic dust fall every day to the Ground.
15. In the Universe exists more than hundred billion galaxies so there is a huge probability that nevertheless in borders of this Universe the people are not lonely.

The most interesting facts about space can be collected and written out incredibly long as our Universe keeps in itself a huge set of secrets and riddles which we now, thanks to development of science, can approach at least on several steps.