Milky Way. Amazing Facts of our own Galaxy

Below are some amazingly interesting facts about our Galaxy Milky Way :

§  Our sun is a part of Milky Way galaxy, hence it can be said that it is our Own galaxy

§  There are billions of Galaxies in the universe and our Milky Way is just one of them

§  There are about 100 to 400 billion stars in our Milky Way galaxy.

§  The largest neighbor of our Milky Way galaxy is Andromeda galaxy.

§  Milky Way is among the group of Spiral Galaxies.

§  Our Milky Way galaxy rotates in clockwise direction.

§  The central part of the Galaxy is known as bulge which usually has the oldest stars in it.

§  Some other dwarf galaxies rotate around our Milky Way.

§  It is estimated that our Milky Way Galaxy is 13 billion years Old.

Amazing Space Facts. Shooting Stars or Meteors

There exists unlimited quantity of space debris which keeps floating in and around galaxies. When a bit of material from this debris enters into Earth’s atmosphere, it starts heating due to friction of the Air and the bright trail it leaves while burning is knows as Shooting Stars or Meteors.

The relatively large prices of meteors which do not burn completely till reaching out Earth’s surface, collide with the earth causing huge dumps and holes on earth surface. These pieces are called meteorites. Appearance of meteors can sometimes similar to earth rocks whereas, sometimes they may also look like thick metal prices.

It is estimated that meteors weighing about thousand of tons enter into the earth’s surface every day. A large majority of this space debris is very small (in the from of grain) which either burns or gently land on the surface of earth without being noticed. Origin of these meteors has sometimes found to be similar to the Asteroids and Comets.

Sighting of some meteors occurs regularly. The most common example of this phenomena is Perseids which appears around August in each year.

There have been reported incidences where human beings were hurt by these falling meteors. One of such incident was witnessed in Sylacauga, Alabama where a meteor weighing about 3.6 Kgs crashed the roof of Mrs. Hewlett Hodges house and severely injured her.

Planet Mercury Facts

The Planet Mercury has been named after roman God of commerce and can be seen from Human eye in twilight and early mornings. Most of the information about mercury comes form US Space mission Mariner 10. Ancient Greeks used to call this planet Apollo....Continue reading

ASTEROIDS AND COMETS

The Fear of a deadly collision of Earth with an unknown space body has always haunted the human race and the chances of its happening are increasing day by day. Size of an asteroids vary form a few feet to several miles..... Continue Reading

Unbelieveable but True Space Facts

This universe is full of unsolved mysteries. Most of the area in outer space is hidden from Human eye, however the facts known are unbelievable and amazing.

Only if we take the example of our Galaxy Milkyway, it will take about three thousand years to count all the stars in this galaxy if count one star .......CONTINUE READING