Halley’s Comet will pass over Earth again on 26th July 2061.
The famous comet was last seen on 9th February, 1986 and only orbits the Earth once every 75 – 76 years.
2020
Pluto is smaller than the United States.
If you were to walk around the equator of Pluto it would be the same distance as walking from London to Denver
2020
The first ever black hole photographed is 3 million times the size of Earth.
The photo was released in April 2019 and shows a halo of dust and gas 310 million trillion miles from Earth.
2019
Any free-moving liquid in outer space will form itself into a sphere.
This is because of surface tension, which is an imbalance of intermolecular attractive forces.
2013
Scientists once believed that the same side of Mercury always faced the Sun.
In 1965 astronomers discovered that the planet rotates three times during every two orbits it makes.
2008
The center of the Milky Way smells like rum & tastes like raspberries.
Discovered by the IRAM radio telescope, a chemical called ethyl formate which gives rum its distinct smell and raspberries their distinct flavor.
2020
According to mathematics, white holes are possible, although we have found none.
A white hole is a hypothetical region of space-time which can’t be entered from the outside, although matter and light can escape from withi
2020
There are approximately 100 thousand million stars in the Milky Way.
Out of all the known galaxies, the Milky Way is the one that contains the most stars.
2017
The one and only British grown Chocolate.
a factory in York tried growing cacao in the inhospitable British weather, but harvested only enough for one small bar
2020
