50 Interesting Solar System Facts Scientists Have Learned So Far

I can't imagine that distance without some reference of scale 🙃

One more reason to feel blue watching a sunset. Thank you very much.

It's methane. Sea, lakes and rivers of farts.

IIRC Neptune has not done 1 revolution round the sun since it was discovered

They wouldn’t if my mom could get to the moon. She would sweep them up.

Unless disturbed, my little pupper appears to be very cute, obedient and non-bitey. Do not disturb my pupper. It would be bad.

I owe, I owe, So off to work I go. (Sorry, couldn't help myself)

This could be a photo of a kindergarten art class floor. But we’ll take your word for it.

Unfortunately, this reverses when you return to full gravity. And, apparently, the shrinking process hurts.

You can grow up to 5 centimetres in Nandos. Happened to me. Ate lots of chicken and suddenly my clothes don't fit.

The are all suited up and mystery person on the right is just chillin’ in their jammies.

So when I say that my d*ck is out of this world, this is what I mean...

The rest is just flying trash now

Great for kite flying

Yahoooo!

Who knew Italy was located on the sun?

About 4000m high, with white peaks made of methane frost.

Poor Pluto. Less than 100 years discovered, and already demoted.

Looks like tinfoil

She doesn't look happy

Saturn’s rings look like a *giant* vinyl record.

But impossible to drive to.

And if you look real close, you'll see monoliths. (What? I love "2010".)

At what speed? 1cm per million years?

Climate change.

I think it's got something to do with the temperature being low enough that the gasses are in superconductive state. If someone remembers more or better, please correct

It is known as Lucifer, the Morning Star.

At last! They've found somewhere that's wetter than Manchester. They will be relieved.

This is highly subjective since there is vast amounts of water locked in the mineral Ringwoodite in the mantle of Earth (more than the surface oceans).

🎶 Our whole universe was in a hot, dense state / Then nearly fourteen billion years ago expansion started, wait / The earth began to cool, the autotrophs began to drool / Neanderthals developed tools / We built a wall (we built the pyramids) / Math, science, history, unraveling the mysteries / That all started with the big bang (bang) 🎶

I'll stay on Earth, thank you.

No you wouldn't. Your mass (measured in kg) stays the same, it's a measurement of how much matter you are made of. What changes is your weight (measured in N), which is a measurement of how hard you're being pulled by a force (here, gravity). If you're 40kg on Earth, you're still 40kg on Jupiter. What changes is that on Earth, your scale will see 392N of weight and correctly tell you this corresponds to 40kg. But on Jupiter, your scale will see 992N and inaccurately convert it to about 100kg because it's using the Earth's gravitational acceleration instead of Jupiter's in its conversion.

"For example, if you weigh 100 pounds on Earth, you would weigh only 38 pounds on Mercury. That’s because Mercury weighs less than Earth, and therefore its gravity would pull less on your body. If, on the other hand, you were on heavy Jupiter, you would weigh a whopping 253 pounds!" Quote from NASA so it's actually a bit more. like the 40kg person would be 101,2 kg on Jupiter.

The difference in the amount of known objects in our solar system now from when I was a kid is mind blowing.

Ιf there was such giant planet or "sun" it would affect the orbits of all the planets of the solar system and the astronomers would know.

Little known fact: the only part of the sun that we have pictures of is the Photoshere. (Rim shot)

And one space station that is often mistaken for a moon.

Anyone who has seen BBC TV show QI will know the frustration of 'how many moons'