Scientists know about space in deep more then they know about oceans.
1. Space is around 13.8 billion years old. Scientists estimate that it would last another 5000 million years !
2. Footprint and tire tracks left on Moon will stay there forever, due to environmental conditions!
3. Sun makes a full rotation once every 27 days.
4. Chances of a person from earth being hit by space debris is 1 in 5 billion
5. There are approximately 200,000,000,000 stars in the Milky Way.
6. Largest star known to mankind is R136a1 which has mass of 265,320 times that of the sun !
7. Our moon is moving away from the earth at the rate of 4 cm per year.
8. Sun loses up to a billion kilogrammes per second due to solar winds.
9. In space the skin on your feet peels off!
10. Space is not that far away.
Space officially begins at the universal marker of the Karman Line. This invisible boundary is 100km above the Earth. In theory if you could drive your car upwards, you could be in space in less than hour.
Image source - astropics