Interesting Space Facts.

Interesting Space Facts.

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Chilli

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Wednesday 10th October 2012
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Here's one.

Winds ten times stronger than a hurricane on Earth swirl around Saturn’s equator reaching up to 1100 km/h – and they never let up: even for a moment.

http://www.amazingspacefacts.50webs.com/index.html

This one of Don's still haunts me...
The Andromeda Galaxy (M31) should be visible shortly after sunset. If you have dark skies, you might even be able to see it with the naked eye. It won't look very interesting until to consider that it consists of 1 trillion stars and is hurtling towards us at over 200,000 miles per hour. Nevertheless, it won't collide with the Milky Way for 4.5 billion years, by which time the Earth may have been gobbled up by our own Sun.

Chilli

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Tuesday 30th October 2012
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RobbieKB said:
Some of them were very interesting!

The heart of a star reaches 16 million °C. A grain of sand this hot would kill someone 150 km away. eek



Edited by RobbieKB on Thursday 25th October 14:14
Absolutely mental! It just doesn't compute!