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Astronomy Fun Facts For Beginners

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Astronomy fun facts abound in this interesting science that explores the universe.  Everything from the size and temperature of our own star, the Sun, to the makeup of distant planets is recorded.  People can get a lot of enjoyment from all of this data.

Astronomy fun facts about our own star, the sun, are almost endless.  It’s somewhere between 91 and 94.5 million miles away from our home planet.  Scientists are not lazy.  Our orbit is elliptical. The distance between us grows larger and smaller throughout the year.

The sun is only average size for a star, yet it’s size is another terrific source of astronomy fun facts.  It’s contains 98% of all the stuff in the solar system, even though it’s not large for a star.  That means the earth, even with massive Jupiter on our side, is only 2%.  It would take about 100 Earths to make it across this average sun.  An AU is the distance from the Earth to the Sun.  The solar winds extend 50 AU’s from the sun.

What about astronomy fun facts that don’t have to do with the sun?  Isn’t the moon interesting?  It’s the only other space object, besides the earth, over which man has walked.  And one human man actually traveled to the moon but never left it.  Dr. Eugene Shoemaker  was rejected as an astronaut.  After his death he was cremated and his ashes scattered over the moon by the Lunar Prospector spacecraft in 1999.

There are more astronomy fun facts about the moon.  It’s the site of what may become the oldest footprint.  Neil Armstrong’s “giant leap for mankind” left a print in the moon dust that will like still be there in 10 million years.  Believe it or not, as of 1988, 13% of people still believed the moon is made of green cheese.  And finally the suits worn by the moon walking astronauts weighed 180 pounds on Earth but only 30 pounds on the moon.  That is a big difference.

Far away objects have astronomy fun facts too.  Stars bring the past to life.  We’re so far away that the light from the stars may take a million years to reach our eyes.  Some of those stars you see may really be images of stars a million years old that aren’t even there in the present.  The number of stars in the sky is expressed by a one with 22 zeros following it.  That is huge.

Astronomy fun facts could fill volumes and volumes.  But this article can’t.  So get out there and learn about astronomy.

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