8 awesome space facts
8 awesome space facts 1. One of Jupiter's 50 moons, Ganymede, is orbiting the gas giant. The largest moon in the entire solar system, Ganymede is bigger than the planet mercury. 2. Astronauts on the international space station captured the June 12, 2009 eruption of Sarychev Peak, a volcano in the northern part of Russia's Kuril Island chain. 3. Mission Specialist Bruce McCandless 2 performed an untethered spacewalk, going farther than any astronaut while unattached to a shuttle 4. the star called V838 monocerotis lives in the milky way galaxy 20,000 light-years away. When it lit up in 2002, its "light echo" revealed dust patterns, show here, in its surrounding cloud structures. 5. Looking more like bizarre rock formation than columns of cold gas in space, these iconic towers are referred to as the Pillars of Creation because the gas is creating new stars. Looking more like vertical rock formations in a cave than columns o...