Space Fact A Day
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What it says on the package. In a world this hectic, it's best to say informed. Lady Engineer. Feel free to contact me for sources.
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Nasa cancels all-female spacewalk, citing lack of suit in woman's size trib.al/6yBN4am
theguardian.com
Nasa cancels all-female spacewalk, citing lack of spacesuit in right size
Space agency blames shortage of outerwear after first-of-its-kind mission falls through
The stars in the Pleiades formed within the last 100 million years. Most are blue in color, making them much hotter then the Sun- but also prone to a shorter life span.
M45, aka Pleiades, is and open cluster of stars about 440 light years from Earth. Though they first appear as a cloud, the stars actually for a miniature version of the famous constellation, the Big Dipper.
The Solar Dynamics Observatory, launched in 2010 observes the ferociousness of the solar surface. The spacecraft takes high resolution images of the Sun every ten second in ten different wavelength of light.
In May 2009, scientists observing Jupiter through the Hubble and Keck telescopes discovered that a white oval on the planet had turned red. The spot only lasted a couple months before it collided with the much more famous "Great Red Spot" and was obliterated.
Blaming your bad luck on Mercury being in retrograde? While the planet have nothing scientific to do with your mood, some do experience "retrograde motion". First observed by tracking Mars, some planets move forward in the sky before falling back in a zig-zag motion.
Sun watching satellites have captured images of Mercury and Venus crossing in front of the Sun. The Curiosity rover recorded a transit of Mercury from Mars in 2014 as well. From its distance, Mercury appeared only as a small dot.
You've heard the PSA: Recycle that plastic water bottle, or else archaeologists will be digging it up thousands of years from now. What you probably haven't heard is that we're ALREADY digging up plastic water bottles that are thousands of years old. trib.al/dYY42xe
wired.com
Plastic Water Bottles Might Have Poisoned Ancient Californians
Native Americans living in California made their own plastic water bottles. However, they didn't know how toxic that might be.
Our solar system—with the sun, the planets and their moons, and the billion of asteroids and comets—fills less than a trillionth of our universe.
The first American woman in space was Sally Ride, who was aboard the space shuttle Challenger on June 18, 1983. She was also the youngest American in space.
Some bacterial colonies grow much faster in space. For example, astro E-coli colonies grow almost twice as fast as E-coli on Earth. Additionally, salmonella grows much deadlier while on a space shuttle than on Earth.
The first woman in space was Valentina Tereshkova, a Soviet cosmonaut who flew aboard the Vostok 6 on June 16, 1963. #womeninstem
When water boils on Earth, it creates thousands of little bubbles. However, in space, boiling water produces one giant, undulating bubble. Scientists believe this is due to lack of convection and buoyancy that accompanies gravity
It's not a surprise Hollywood doesn't get everything right. In 2001: A Space Odyssey, Bowman should have exhaled before entering the vacuum of space. If he had lungs full of air, they would have been damaged.
Konstantin Tsiolkovsky was the first person to propose a space elevator, doing so in 1895.
The reason Mars looks red is because its soil and rocks have rusted! The Martian surface is rich in iron that has oxidized over the years causing the iconic 'rust' color.
While every other planet in the solar system is named after a Roman deity, Uranus come from ancient Greek myths. (So yes, somebody really did just want a planet named Uranus,)
5,000 years ago, Polaris was not the North Star. Due to the slow changing tilt of the Earth, called procession, a star named Thuban in the constellation Draco, was identified by ancient Egyptians as the pivot point in the sky.
The gravitational reach of the Sun is a sphere of space that ranges about 11 trillion miles in diameter (approx. 2 light years).
#otd, Russian cosmonaut Valentina Tereshkova was born! In 1963, she became the first woman to ever travel to space. This is a postage stamp celebrating that feat. #WomensHistoryMonth
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