@jessicabraidan.bsky.socialThere's a water cloud in space holding 140 TRILLION times Earth's oceans 🤯🌌 The curious kid in your life needs to know this — 60 mind-blowing space facts, each with a page to color 🚀🖍️
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@orbitalradar.bsky.socialFUN FACT: Venus's day is longer than its year! 🌍 It spins so slowly that a full rotation takes 243 Earth days, compared to just 225 days to orbit the Sun.
While waiting, the next launch is Long March 6A in ~13h. Explore more at orbitalradar.com/academy
@orbitalradar.bsky.socialFUN FACT: On Mercury, one day lasts 176 Earth days, while its year is just 88 days. You could celebrate two birthdays before bedtime! Curious? Explore more cosmic wonders at our Academy: orbitalradar.com/academy #Mercury #SpaceFacts #SpaceFunFact
@orbitalradar.bsky.socialFUN FACT: How does the Sun lose 4 million tonnes each second and still shine on after 4.6 billion years?
That's its trick—it’s only shed a tiny fraction of its mass so far.
Unimpressed? Space has 31,477 tracked objects right now.
@orbitalradar.bsky.socialFUN FACT: The sunlight warming you is 8 minutes old. But its journey? 100,000 years through the Sun's core! Energy's long trek before the final Earth hop.
@orbitalradar.bsky.socialFUN FACT: The Sun accounts for 99.8% of our solar system's mass.
All planets, moons, asteroids, and comets squeak into the remaining 0.2%. It's like an elephant among mice!
Track its dominance at orbitalradar.com/sun
@orbitalradar.bsky.socialFUN FACT: Try this now—imagine a road trip to space! 🚀
At 113 km/h, you'd reach the Karman line in just 53 minutes. Keep going, and the Moon is 142 days away. But don't pack for Neptune—it's a 4,400-year trip!
Explore more: orbitalradar.com/academy
@jessicabraidan.bsky.socialThe sun rises 16 times a day on the space station! 🌅 Astronauts sleep in sleeping bags strapped to walls (gravity doesn't exist up there). From "Blast Off! 60 Incredible Facts About Space" https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0H3ZS9FK6 #SpaceFacts #KidsBooks #LearningIsFun
@usefultoday.bsky.socialVenus has a peculiar orbit: a day on Venus is longer than its year! It takes more time for Venus to rotate once on its axis than it does to complete one orbit around the Sun. 🤯 Source: https://spaceplace.nasa.gov/venus-day-year/en/ #spacefacts
@orbitalradar.bsky.socialFUN FACT: Halley's Comet has been visible since before recorded history, gliding past us every 76 years. Most humans saw it once. Twice? You're statistically remarkable. Next swing-by: 2061.
Track celestial wonders here: orbitalradar.com/near-earth…
@curiositystream.bsky.socialDid Mars once have an ocean? 🌊
Scientists believe over 20% of Mars, across the northern plains, was once covered by a nearly mile-deep ocean. Ancient shorelines and valleys reveal a wetter world—and clues to possible life.
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@orbitalradar.bsky.socialFUN FACT: Neptune takes 165 Earth years to orbit the Sun. Since its 1846 discovery, it's completed just one orbit, finishing in 2011. Lap two ends around 2176.
That's one long year! 🌌
Learn more at orbitalradar.com/academy
@chikyufoundation.comNeil deGrasse Tyson is upset about the Kessler Syndrome
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@orbitalradar.bsky.socialFUN FACT: There are 31,373 tracked objects in orbit right now. But did you know Jupiter's Great Red Spot, a storm wider than Earth, has been spinning since the 1830s? It's still going strong after all this time.
Explore more wonders: orbitalradar.com/academy
@orbitalradar.bsky.socialFUN FACT: Can all the planets fit between Earth and the Moon? Yup, with room to spare! Space is mostly space after all.
Speaking of space, 29,390 objects are circling Earth right now, keeping those planets company.
Explore more at orbitalradar.com/moon
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@manavpod.bsky.socialThe Moon looks close, but space is vast.
At 238,855 miles out, all seven other planets fit right inside that gap.
Diagrams cheat, the real distance is truly massive!