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 of cold dust and gas in space, the Pillars of Creation were first photographed in 1995. A sharper, wider image (pictured here) of the iconic towers was taken in 2015.

6. Though the Cone Nebula is 7 light-years long. The Cone Nebula is an H II region in the constellation of Monoceros. It was discovered by William Herschel on December 26, 1785, at which time he designated it H V.27. The nebula is located about 830 parsecs or 2,700 light-years away from Earth.

7. Named for its resemblance to the Mexican hat of the same name, the Sombrero galaxy or M104 features a glowing, bulging core of stars enclosed in thick, dark lanes of dust. M104 was discovered in 1781 by the French astronomer and comet hunter Pierre Méchain, one of Charles Messier’s colleagues.
8. Ancient Chinese and Japanese astronomers witnessed the supernova explosion that created the Crab Nebula in A.D. 1054. This detailed mosaic image of the six-light-year-wide dead star is the work of NASA's Hubble Space Telescope.

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