• Space has a smell. Different astronauts have described it as smelling like gunpowder, burnt almond cookies, pleasantly metallic, welding, and even steak.
• If we average the color of the light emitted by galaxies, their stars, and all visible clouds of gas and dust in the universe, it forms a color similar to ivory, nearly white. The color is called ‘cosmic latte.’
• The International Space Station is the third-brightest object in the sky, after the Sun and the Moon.
• A full moon is 9–10 times brighter than a half-moon due to the Lunar regolith having retroreflective properties.
• The average distance between asteroids in the asteroid belt is twice the distance between the Earth and Moon. We could fly through the asteroid belt without fear of hitting anything.
• Space is only 62 miles up, and the International Space Station is only 250 miles up.
• The Sun contains 99.86% of the total mass of the solar system.
• If we traveled at light speed, it would take around four years to reach our closest star system, Alpha Centauri. Using the now-retired Discovery space shuttle, it would take almost 150,000 years.
• Magnetars (neutron stars with the strongest magnetic fields in the universe) are so strong that if we got within 650 miles of one, we would die because the magnetic field would strip the electrons from our body.
• The moon is dangerous to visit because the lack of atmosphere has an interesting effect on its surface. The dust of the moon is extremely fine since it’s been constantly bombarded by space debris. Microscopically, moon dust is extremely sharp and pointy. Without atmospheric wind, it doesn’t get any friction or anything to smooth it out.
• Australia is wider than the moon. The diameter of the moon is 3,400 km, and Australia’s is around 4,000 km. The moon is a sphere, so it has more surface size.
• J1047b is a ringed planet orbiting V1400 Centauri. It’s ring system is approximately 200 times larger than Saturn’s — which is why it’s also known as ‘Super Saturn.’ If J1047b was where Saturn is in our solar system, it would dominate our sky.
• Quasars are very bright energy emitters powered by supermassive black holes. They can be up to 100,000 times the brightness of the entire milky way galaxy.
• A human can only survive 10–15 seconds of being in space without a spacesuit. Failure to get into a space suit, a human would freeze solid in 12–26 hours.
• Gravity has an infinite range, with its strength weakening as distance increases, but never reaching zero. That means that, right now, everything in the universe with any mass at all is pulling on us.
• If somebody in a different galaxy 100 million light-years away had a super-telescope, they could look back at us and see the dinosaurs. This is because the light reaching them would be 100 million years old.
• To turn Earth into a black hole, it would need to be compressed to the size of a marble.
• It’s estimated that over 95% of stars in the universe that will ever form have already formed, and star formation now is just 3% of what it was at the peak of star formation more than 10 billion years ago.
• The Sun is 93 million miles away, so it takes over eight minutes for sunlight to get to earth. So technically, we see the Sun as it appeared eight minutes ago.
• Apollo astronauts reported seeing ‘light flashes’ while in transit to the Moon. Researchers believe it may be energetic particles from the Sun being detected by their retina. Earth-bound humans are protected from this phenomenon by the magnetosphere.

Thank you, sciencenews.org and ESA/Hubble for proving how big and magnificent our God and Creator of the universe really is! And His Spirit and life lives in each of us when we believe in Him and His Son Jesus. He knows our name, the number of hairs on our head, and we are the apple of His eye. He knows when we sit when we rise, and He perceives our thoughts from afar. He knows our heart and the words we speak. And He knows the number of our days. Our God, who created the universe, knows us intimately, and loves us eternally.