10 Intresting space facts

 1. You wouldn't be able to walk on Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus or Neptune because they have no solid surface 

2.  A black-hole is created when big stars explode. Its gravitational force is so strong that nothing can escape from it luckily the closet black-hole is about 10,000 light-year from earth.

3. If you can put Saturn into a pool or other water body, it will start floating .

4. Gene Roddenberry the man who created start Trek- had a portion of his ashes sent into space after his death.

5. Earth is the only planet that is not named after a god.

6. According to recent research it is believed that the Earth's inner core may be hotter that Sun's surface.

7. In June 2011, NASA's Jupiter bound Juno spacecraft carried, representing the Roman god Jupiter, his wife Juno and Galileo Galilei to inspire children to explore space, Science and technology.

8. CoRot(Convection, Rotation and planetary Transits) led by CNES( The center National D'Etudes) is the first mission for  Studying new planets orbiting the stars.

9. There's a whole host of man-made objects -known as "space-junl" floating around thousand's of miles away in space .

10. Based on radioactive dating using Uranium and Thorium isotopes it is believed that the earth's is about 4.5 billion  years old.