The planet Earth is located about 150,000,000 kilometers away from the sun, but the distance is not constant. The earth travels at a speed of about 490,000 miles per hour around the center of our galaxy, which means that in one minute you are over 8,100 miles away from where you were.
Amazing fact: sun
The Sun is 400,000 times brighter than the full Moon in the sky.
Amazing fact: moon
The Moon spins around its axis in the same time it goes one lap around the Earth which makes us always see the same side of it.Every year the moon moves about 1.5 inches further away from the earth.
Amazing fact: neutron star
The fastest spinning objects in the Universe are neutron stars, these can rotate 500 times in just 1 second.
Amazing fact: solar system
99% of our solar systems mass is concentrated in the sun.
