Facts about Universe

• A day on Venus is longer than a year.

• 33 light years away there is an exoplanet completely covered in burning ice.

• About 275 million new stars are born everyday.

• According to astronauts, space smells like seared steak, hot metal, and welding fumes.

• According to researchers, the center of our galaxy tastes like raspberries and smells like rum.

• Each year the moon moves 3.8 cm further from the Earth.

• Earth has over 8,000 pieces of space junk orbiting around it.

• Earth’s rotation is slowing at a rate of about 17 milliseconds a century.

• Far beyond Neptune, there may be an object the size of Earth orbiting the sun.

• If you could compress the Earth down to the size of a marble, it would collapse on itself and become a black hole.