9 facts about space.

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• 1.The hottest planet in our solar system is Venus. Most people often think that it would be Mercury, as it’s the closest planet to the sun. This is because Venus has a lot of gasses in its atmosphere, which causes the “Greenhouse Effect”.
• 2.The solar system is around 4.6 billion years old. Scientist estimate that it will probably last another 5000 million years
• 3.Enceladus, one of Saturn’s smaller moons, reflects some 90% of the sunlight, making it more reflective than snow!
• 4.The highest mountain known to man is the Olympus Mons, which is located on Mars. It’s peak is 15 miles (25KM) high, making it nearly 3 times higher than Mt Everest.
• 5.The Whirlpool Galaxy (M51) was the very first celestial object to be identified as being spiral.
• 6.A light year is the distance covered by light in a single year, this is equivalent to 5.88 trillion miles (9.5 trillion KM)
• 7.It is thanks to the Sun and our own moons gravity that we have high and low tides.
• 8.Pluto is smaller than the Earth’s moon!
• 9.According to mathematics, white holes are possible, although as of yet, we have found none.

Sources :thefactsite.

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