Time and Space

Mysteries of the universe!

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Fire a cannonball fast enough and it never lands. Faster still, and it never comes back #space

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The Moon is wreckage from a planet that hit the Earth 4.5 billion years ago #space #moon #earth

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The Sun has gone around the Milky Way only about 20 times in its whole life #space #milkyway

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In 2015 a ripple in space moved a detector by a thousandth of a proton's width #space #blackhole

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The Moon is drifting away from Earth, and one day it will end total eclipses #space #moon #earth

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You feel still, but you are crossing the galaxy at 828,000 km an hour #space #earth #physics

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The biggest planet has the shortest day: Jupiter spins in under ten hours #space #jupiter

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Voyager 1 would need 73,775 years to reach the nearest star #space #proximacentauri #voyager

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The universe is 13.8 billion years old, yet we see things 46 billion light-years away #space

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If the Moon came 20 times closer, it would not hit the Earth. It would become rings #space #moon

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On Venus the Sun rises in the west, and one spin takes longer than a year #space #venus #planets

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A black hole of 4.3 million Suns sits at our galaxy's centre, and we watch stars orbit it #space

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The solar system does not end at Pluto. It ends at a shell of comets over a light-year out

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Andromeda is heading our way at 110 km a second. A collision is now a coin toss #space #milkyway

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Betelgeuse will explode, and it may shine as bright as the half-Moon for months #space #stars

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Some galaxies look like perfect rings. Gravity bent their light around something #space

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Our Sun will end as a ball the size of Earth that still weighs as much as a star #space #sun

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You see the Sun as it was 8 minutes ago, and Andromeda 2.5 million years ago #space #light

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The James Webb telescope is parked 1.5 million km away, at a point where it stays put #space

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A dead star spins 716 times every second, its equator moving at 24% of light speed #space