On Venus, one year lasts the equivalent of 225 Earth days, but one day lasts 243 Earth days…so a day on Venus is longer than a year.
Venus is not alone either. It takes Mercury 88 Earth days to orbit the sun, but the time from sunrise to sunset on the planet is 176 days. So a day on Mercury is almost twice as long as a year.
You could fit more than one million Earths inside the Sun.
Neither the Earth nor the Moon is perfectly spherical. In fact, they are both elongated, like a ball that’s been squashed. The technical term for that shape is an “oblate spheroid”.
Moonlight is not actually light from the Moon because the Moon itself is not a light source. In fact, what we call moonlight is sunlight reflected off the Moon, despite the Sun being out of sight.
Astronomers have averaged out the color of all the visible light in the universe and found that the universe is, on average, slightly beige. They have called this color “Cosmic Latte”.
Our galaxy, the Milky Way, smells faintly of rum. Scientists know that because there is a cloud at the center of our galaxy comprised of a chemical called “ethyl formate,” which as well as giving raspberries their distinctive flavor, has a similar scent to sweet rum.
Every year, the Moon drifts further away from the earth, while the Earth’s rotation is gradually slowing and lengthening our days.
The Animal Cat: I have a break from politics. Here are some animals from my archives. The first is Democrat dogs looking for some Russian Collusion. I think they are all real.
Explanation: This is a map of the universe. The Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI) at Kitt Peak National Observatory, Arizona, has finished its five-year survey. It observed more than 47 million galaxies and quasars and created a 3D map centered on the Earth. Today’s featured image shows a thin slice of these data: the black gaps indicate where our Galaxy obscures distant objects. The feathery web in the inset shows the large scale structure of the universe. Light of the most distant galaxies shown here travelled for 11 billion years to reach the Earth. Galaxies cluster throughout cosmic history under the competing influences of gravity and dark energy, responsible for the accelerated expansion of the universe. Analysis of early DESI results hinted at the possibility that dark energy, described as a cosmological constant by Albert Einstein, may not be constant after all. But we still have to wait for the analysis of the now complete dataset. The nature of dark energy is the biggest mystery of cosmology.
All people die because of what one man did. That man was Adam. And it is because of another man that people can rise up after death to a new life. That man is Christ.
These Somalis have some real Quality problems with the consonant ‘N’, don’t they? They should contact Vanna White at The Wheel of Fortune, maybe she has a few to spare. By the way, I wonder if Ilha divorced her brother before she married her new husbad? -Sheila Tolley-
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Yes! Immediately, if not sooner!! -MST-
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I find this New York Post info quite educational, for a change. I did not know that Seattle had any gifted or talented students. -MST-
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The leaders who used to be alive in Iran,
knew this guy as ‘Santa Claus’. -MST-
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The Mediterranean Sea used to be a vast empty basin-like depression until the Atlantic Ocean swelled sufficiently to overflow the Straits of Gibraltar and fill it with water. This colossal event, known as the Zanclean Flood, happened more than five million years ago.
Mount Everest weighs around 350 trillion pounds. It grows in height by around a quarter of an inch every year.
Ten of the world’s 14 mountains that stand higher than 26,247 feet are found in the Himalayas.
The most volcanic region on the planet is Indonesia. This vast island nation is home to more than 13,000 volcanoes.
More than half a million gallons of water flow over the edge of Niagara Falls every second.
The world’s tallest uninterrupted waterfall is Angel Falls in Venezuela. The falls themselves stand more than 3,000 feet tall, while the water flowing over them plunges 2,648 feet
If it were not classified as a continent, Australia would be the world’s largest island.
The world’s largest island is Greenland. At 840,000 square miles, it is more than twice the size of its closest rival, New Guinea.
