Comments on: Your Fact Fix

By: Heather A

Heather A — Sat, 01 Mar 2008 03:25:23 +0000

All the planets rotate counter-clockwise, except venus.

Uranus was the first planet discovered.

By: Florida

Florida — Fri, 29 Feb 2008 16:48:22 +0000

Gravity is still just a theory.

By: ARJ

ARJ — Fri, 29 Feb 2008 03:52:08 +0000

The most powerful magnetic object ever perceived by man is a neutron star found in the Sagittarius constellation called SGR 1806-20. It’s magnetic field is one thousand trillion times great than the Earth’s magnetic field!

By: Jacob

Jacob — Thu, 28 Feb 2008 23:11:59 +0000

Simply knowing the color of a star can tell you a lot about it, including size, mass and temperature.

By: Kellygirl

Kellygirl — Thu, 28 Feb 2008 21:22:30 +0000

Ms. Baker, a squirrel monkey that along with Able the rhesus monkey were the first animals to return to Earth after traveling in space, died November 29, 1984 at the age of 27 and is buried on the grounds of the US Space and Rocket Center in Huntsville, Alabama.

By: VB

VB — Thu, 28 Feb 2008 20:44:57 +0000

Recently, NASA found that inside one gram of gas and dust in a cosmic cloud, there could be as many as 10,000 trillion nanodiamonds.

By: VB

VB — Thu, 28 Feb 2008 20:40:24 +0000

In the late 90s, only 6 planets outside of our Solar System had been discovered by Astronomers. Today, over 150 have been discovered and documented, many of them with rocky surfaces.

Scientists are trying to determine if any of these would be viable to live on, so humankind can continue to exist after 1) our Sun explodes into a Supernova or 2) our galaxy is consumed by Andromeda, a larger galaxy which is on a collision course toward the Milky Way.

By: Owen

Owen — Thu, 28 Feb 2008 18:56:56 +0000

The largest diamond ever discovered is ‘Lucy’, a crystallized white dwarf star that weighs at least 10 billion trillion trillion carats. It is only 50 light years from earth.

By: Jake Le Master

Jake Le Master — Thu, 28 Feb 2008 18:51:38 +0000

There is no “edge of the universe.” The universe contains so much matter that space has bent back on itself, thus making it, in a way, circular, much like the Earth.

By: EV

EV — Thu, 28 Feb 2008 18:42:27 +0000

Contrary to popular belief, it is possible to survive in the vacuum of space without a spacesuit, though only for a short amount of time.