00:00Hey everyone! Welcome back to Thinkverse, where we dive into the most fascinating facts.
00:07Today, we're exploring the cosmos with the top 10 most surprising facts about space.
00:13Buckle up, because these facts are out of this world.
00:20Fact number 10. Space is completely silent.
00:24Unlike on Earth, there is no air in space to carry sound waves.
00:28So, if you were floating in space, you wouldn't hear a thing.
00:37Fact number 9. A day on Venus is longer than a year on Venus.
00:42Venus takes about 243 Earth days to rotate once on its axis,
00:47but only about 225 Earth days to orbit the Sun.
00:50Fact number 8. Neutron stars are incredibly dense.
00:59A sugar-cube-sized amount of neutron star material would weigh around 100 million tons on Earth.
01:05Fact number 7. There's a giant cloud of alcohol in space.
01:23The cloud, which is in the constellation of Sagittarius,
01:26contains enough alcohol to make 400 trillion trillion pints of beer.
01:30Fact number 6. Space is not very far away.
01:34The Kármán line, which is generally considered the boundary of space,
01:38is just 100 kilometers above Earth's surface.
01:41That's roughly the distance from New York City to Washington, D.C.
01:55Fact number 5. There's a giant hexagon on Saturn.
02:01At Saturn's north pole, there's a massive hexagon-shaped storm system,
02:05each side of which is about 13,800 kilometers long.
02:15Fact number 4. The universe is expanding.
02:18The universe has been expanding since the Big Bang,
02:21and it's doing so at an accelerating rate due to dark energy.
02:24Fact number 3. Astronauts' height changes in space.
02:29Without the force of gravity,
02:30astronauts can grow up to two inches taller during their time in space.
02:35But don't worry, they return to their normal height once back on Earth.
02:40Fact number 2. There's a planet made of diamonds.
02:4455 Cancri e, a planet twice the size of Earth,
02:48is believed to be covered in grass,
02:50And finally, fact number 1. The largest volcano in the solar system is on Mars.
02:56Olympus Mons is about 13.6 miles high,
02:59nearly three times the height of Mount Everest.
03:10That's it for today's top 10. Which fact blew your mind the most?
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