20 Interesting Space & Astronomy Facts

 1. Cyril’s star which is located about 13,000 light years from the Galactic Halo is estimated by scientists to be 12.5 billion years old.

2. The star named WR 102 is having a surface temperature of about 210,000k which makes it the hottest star of the universe.

3. The Constellation Hydra is the largest of all 88 constellations. There are 17 major stars in the Constellation Hydra.

4. The first exoplanet to be discovered by scientists is called Gamma Cephei Ab, and it is located 45 light years away from us.

5. Hyades is the closest open star cluster to us and is about 153 light years away.

6. The first Quasar to be discovered was named 3C48, which was detected in 1960.

7. The nearest black hole to the sun is called Qv Tel Ab or HR 6819, which is part of a triple star system just 1,200 light years away.

8. A star named MACS J1149 lensed star 1 existed at a very large distance of about 14,400 million light years from us.

9. 4U 1700-37 is a neutron star and is the most massive neutron star ever discovered. It is located in the constellation Scorpius.

10.  A group of 9 Gamma Ray Bursts, also called the giant GRB ring, is one of the largest known cosmic structure in the universe.

11. The James Web Space telescope which is soon to be launched, is considering to be a hundred times more powerful than the Hubble Space Telescope.

12. Did you know that Russian Cosmonauts carry a Gun in space.

13. The planet with the highest gravity in our solar system is the gas giant Jupiter.

14. Like the Rough planet, Scientists have also discovered the existence of Rough Stars. These stars are thrown out of galaxies into intergalactic space.

15. The Voyager 1 Spacecraft has so far travelled 22,000,000,000 kilometres away from us.

16. The Giant Andromeda Galaxy is approaching our galaxy at a speed of 110 kilometres per second and four billion years later the two will collide.

17. IC 1101 is a super-giant galaxy the largest galaxy ever discovered with a radius of approximately 1.9569 million light years.

18. The IC 1101 galaxy contains more than 100 trillion stars and has a very large supermassive black hole at its centre.

19. Sirius is the brightest visible star in the night sky from our earth and is only 8.6 light years away from our earth.

20. The collision of two Neutron stars is conspired to be the brightest and most violent event since the Big Bang. 

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