By Sakshi Sah
Published Jan 14, 2025
Hindustan Times
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5 mind-blowing facts about space and astronomy
Space is full of incredible and strange things. Let’s explore five amazing facts about space that will leave you amazed.
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Although the Moon looks round in the night sky, it's actually shaped like a lemon. It has flattened poles and bulges around its equator.
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Interactions with Earth caused the Moon to become squished at the poles and bulge at the equator.
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In 2009, astronomers discovered that a giant cloud of gas and dust at the centre of the Milky Way smells like rum and raspberries.
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This is due to a chemical called ethyl formate, which gives raspberries their flavour and has the scent of rum.
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Mercury has very strange days and years. A day on Mercury lasts 59 Earth days, but its year is only 88 Earth days.
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Due to its odd orbit, the time from one sunrise to the next on Mercury is 176 Earth days, which is twice as long as a year on the planet.
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A neutron star is extremely dense. Just a teaspoon of this star’s material weighs as much as the entire human population.
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