Fun Space Facts for Kids - Cool, Moon, Planets, Sun, Crazy, Interesting Astronomy Information. SPACEFACTS. More Space Facts - PlanetFacts.net. Extremely Interesting Facts on the Planets, Stars and the Universe. If one were to capture and bottle a comet's 10,000 mile vapor trail, the amount of vapor actually present in the bottle would take up less than 1 cubic inch of space. Members of the Dogon tribe in Mali, Africa, for many centuries worshiped a star known today by astronomers as Sirius B. The Dogon people knew its precise elliptical orbit, knew how long it took to revolve around its parent star, Sirius, and were aware that it was made up of materials not found on Earth—all this centuries before modern astronomers had even discovered that Sirius B existed. Deimos, one of the moons of mars, rises and sets twice a day. To an observer standing on Pluto, the sun would appear no brighter than Venus appears in our evening sky.
Saturn's rings are 500,000 miles in circumference but only about a foot thick. Five times as many meteors can be seen after midnight as can be seen before. The star Antares is 60,000 times larger than our sun. Space. SOLAR SYSTEm SCOPE.