Interesting Facts About the Moon

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 It is estimated that our moon was formed 4.6 billion years ago (around 30-50 million years after the formation of the solar system

·    A common theory is that it was once part of the Earth and was formed from a chunk that broke away due to another huge object colliding with earth when it was relatively young

·    The surface area of the moon is 14,658,000 square miles or 9.4 billion acres. Earth is about 80 times the volume than the Moon, but both are about the same age

·    The moon Orbits our planet every 27.3 days. Orbiting at a distance of 384,400 miles from earth and at a speed of 2,300 miles an hour

·    Temperatures on the moon range from 123 Celsius, to – 233 Celsius and Just 59% of the moon's surface is visible from earth

·    There are more than 300,000 craters on the moon that are each more than 1km wide

·    Most people think the moon is round in shape, when in fact it is actually shaped like an egg

·        Jupiter has 67 moons, Saturn has 62, Uranus 27, Neptune 14, mars 2, and earth just one

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 Size of a Star:

Every single star you see in the night sky is bigger and brighter than our Sun

Massive stars are the ones with the shortest life span. They lend their mass to a high density of chemicals; as such they burn their fuel much quicker than smaller stars

Some stars that are 100 times more massive than our Sun. These stars also can deliver an output about a million times more energy than our sun.  Even while maintaining the same size radius

Stars occur in many sizes, which are classified in a range from dwarfs to super-giants.

  Distance:

The Sun is our nearest star to us here on Earth

After the Sun our next nearest star to earth is called Proxima Centauri

Proxima Centauri is about 4 light-years away (That is, about 5.87 trillion miles)

Light traveling from Proxima Centauri takes about 4 years to get here. (Therefore the light is 4 years old when we get to see it from Earth)

100 million light years – This is furthest distance of a star that has been observed so far.  You can find it in the “m100 galaxy” of the “Virgo cluster”

Temperature:

Our Sun has a surface temperature of about 5500 degrees Celsius

The hottest stars have been identified with a surface temperature of around 50,000 degrees celsius.  

Coolest stars are around 3,000 degrees celsius

It might look like all the stars are out there by themselves, but many come in pairs, called Binary stars

Stars can appear to be different in colour. This is because of their temperature and they are not all the same – Hot stars appear white or blue, whereas cooler stars appear to have red or blue hues.

Despite how often stars are claimed to “twinkle” this is not true. The twinkling effect is merely the light from the star passing through the Earth’s atmosphere.  As such it is merely deflecting the light before it reaches your eyes

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