SpaceCosmology
Every atom in you heavier than iron came from a dying star.
The gold in a ring was forged in a stellar explosion before the Sun existed.
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Space facts are where the numbers stop making sense. A total eclipse only works because the Sun is 400 times wider than the Moon and 400 times further away. Venus spins backwards, some of the static on an old TV was the Big Bang, and almost all of the universe is missing. Every fact here links to its source.
- Some of the static on an old TV was the Big Bang.
- Almost all of the universe is missing.
- Astronomers aimed a telescope at an empty patch of sky for ten days.
- The Sun loses four million tonnes of itself every second.
- Andromeda is heading straight for us.
- The sunlight on your skin is tens of thousands of years old.