Some Truly Amazing Facts and Statistics About the Universe We Live In

In case you did not know a light year is roughly a distance of six trillion miles. If you ask me 93 billion of anything that is 6 trillion miles long is a seriously long whatever it is.

Solarspace.co.uk states that if you had a large enough swimming pool to place Saturn into it would float. That's right Saturn, one of the biggest planets, has such a light density it would stay afloat; however, you are talking about one huge swimming pool.

The Science and Technology Facilities Coucil tells us if two pieces of metal touch each other in space them become permanently fused together, this process called cold welding comes from list verse. Space is a vacuum and this explains why all the material and tools we see in space are coated with a material to prevent this from happening. Imagine your hammer being instantly and permanently fused to a nail, talk about inconvenient.

The great folks at SciTech let us know that any free moving liquid in space will form itself into a sphere. They go on to explain that this is due to the surface tension of liquids. Imagine spilling a cup of water and watching it form into a ball!

Again the folks at SciTech inform us that, Venus is the only planet that rotates clockwise. Imagine being different from everyone else in the world in a unique way, Venus rotating backwards is about the best way to distinguish itself from all the other planets in our Solar System.