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Astronomy is a fun science filled with many astronomy fun facts. This includes information about the size of stars and the distance of our earth from the center of our own Milky Way galaxy. All of this information can be recalled to entertain and enlighten people.

The Sun is a great source of astronomy fun facts. It’s somewhere between 91 and 94.5 million miles away from our home planet. It’s not that nobody knows for certain. The Earth’s orbit isn’t circular. The distance between us grows larger and smaller throughout the year.

The sun is only average size for a star, yet it’s size is another terrific source of astronomy fun facts. 98% of all the matter in our solar system is inside the Sun. Everything else, counting the earth and all the planets, is a tiny 2%. Over 1.6 million earths would fit inside this star. The sun blows its solar wind out to 50 times the distance between the star and our earth.

Shall we turn to some astronomy fun facts that don’t have to do with the sun? What about the moon? In all the universe man has only walked upon the earth and the moon. One earthly traveler visited the moon and never came back. Dr. Eugene Shoemaker loved the moon but was rejected as an astronaut. In 1999, after his death of course, his ashes were spread onto the moon.

There are even more astronomy fun facts covering the moon. In a famous nursery rhyme a cow jumped over the moon. Believe it or not, as of 1988, 13% of people still believed the moon is made of green cheese. The spacesuits worn by the moon astronauts weighed a whopping 180 pounds on earth, but only 30 pounds on the moon. That is a big difference.

There are astronomy fun facts about faraway objects too. Stars bring the past to life. Some of the stars we see today in the night sky are so far away that light takes a million years to reach us from them. Some stars we see may no longer even be there. The number of stars in the sky is a one followed by 22 zeros. Oh boy that’s a lot.

There are even more astronomy fun facts. But this article can’t. So get out there and learn about astronomy.

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