10 INSANE Space Facts That Will Give You Nightmares

 space is an endless void of amazing  discoveries that'll never cease to amaze  us  this black and white photo was taken  when 67p  karumov gerasimenka was approaching the  sun  and reveals a jet of ice erupting from  its crumbling surface  we are made of stuff that was produced  in stars  and supernova explosions from the iron  in our blood  to the copper and our electronic devices  jupiter's gravity  not only pulled the comet in it also  ripped it apart  welcome and in this article we'll be going  through some of the creepiest facts  about space  that keep us up at night here are 10  space facts that will give you  nightmares  number 10 the distance between the earth  and the moon  the moon is the closest major space  object to the earth  and it's evident as we see it every  single day on a clear night  however even the distance of the moon  from the earth can be  monstrous if you look at it another way  when you look at it from the perspective  of space  384 400 kilometers on average  might not seem that far away but how far  away is that exactly  well with 384 400 kilometers you would  be able to stack  every single planet in our solar system  next to each other  and still have some space left it's  incredible that humans were able to land  on something so far away back in the 60s  another object we can clearly see from  the earth is the sun  which is about 400 times bigger than the  moon but it's also about 400 times  further from the earth than the moon is  which is why they look like they're the  same size  when we see them in the sky number nine  jupiter's crazy moons  jupiter is by far the biggest planet in  our solar system the planet is so big in  fact that it's often considered by  astronomers to be a failed star  rather than a planet due to its sheer  size  jupiter has developed its own ecosystem  over the course of billions of years and  one strange thing about it is its crazy  moons  jupiter has about 79 moons and only 53  of them  actually have a name one of its most  famous moons is called  europa which is covered by a layer of  ice that has visible cracks all over it  it almost looks like a glass ball that's  ready to be shattered  another strange moon is io which  actually has quite a unique appearance  and at the top of the moon there's a  towering active volcano that sends blue  flames about 250 miles into the air  which was once caught by the new horizon  spacecraft when it was on its way to  pluto  number eight the biggest volcano in the  universe well there are plenty of  notable volcanoes on earth that are  quite frankly terrifying in their own  right but did you know that there are  actually huge volcanoes located  outside our planet some of these  volcanoes are so big  that they make the biggest volcanoes  here on earth seem like fireplace  chimneys  well there are plenty of volcanoes  located on planets that we have yet to  fully discover  the largest volcano in the universe that  we have already discovered  is called olympus mons and it's located  on mars  the height of this volcano is about 25  kilometers or 16 miles high  which is about three times the height of  mount everest if each day on olympus  mass  you walked for 13 hours in total you  would need roughly two days to reach the  peak  if the height wasn't enough the sheer  size of this volcano is ridiculous as  well  it's about 374 miles or 602 kilometers  across  which is roughly the same size as the  state of arizona  while this volcano seems inactive today  there may be a time when it becomes  active again  as we don't exactly know everything  about mars geography yet  number 7 venus anomalies venus is at its  closest point  the closest planet to earth while  mercury  is the closest on average so you would  assume that a day or a year on venus  might be similar to that on earth right  well venus has an excruciatingly slow  speed  it actually takes over 116 earth days  for venus to complete  one day this is despite the fact that it  only takes 225 earth days for venus to  complete a full orbit of the sun  so a year on venus only lasts slightly  less than two whole days  venus is also famously hot the average  temperature on the planet is over  820 degrees to nearly 900 degrees  fahrenheit  number six planet made of diamonds  there's one planet  in the universe that never had to worry  about running out of diamonds  anytime soon 55 cans 3e is a recently  discovered planet that's located about  40 light years away from the earth  it's a carbon-rich planet that's  actually so dense in carbon  that scientists believe it might  actually be composed of diamonds  entirely  the planet is about twice the size of  the earth so you can imagine if a little  piece of this planet could be brought to  earth  it would completely collapse the diamond  industry here  number five mercury is shrinking while  the earth is one of the only  tectonically active planets that we know  of  if not the only tectonically active  planet  recent evidence suggests some tectonic  activity happening in mercury as well  when the messenger spacecraft was taking  hd photos of mercury for the first time  it noticed that there were these small  cliff-like objects located on mercury  surface  that seemed like they were formed  relatively recently  if they were that means that mercury  might actually be more similar to the  earth than we previously could have  imagined  4. fast radio bursts there's plenty of  people who think that extraterrestrial  beings like to send us messages from  outer space and while those people are  considered  crazy this discovery actually made  scientists think the same  in 2006 astronomers discovered fast  radio bursts originating from somewhere  in outer space  these radio bursts are usually a  fraction of a second long  and they've been discovered multiple  more times since then no one knows how  these radio bursts are happening and  what they mean  but these fast radio bursts might just  be the only evidence of extraterrestrial  communication we currently have  and they may lead to numerous new  discoveries in the future  number three strange structures on mars  everyone's favorite red planet mars is  the most explored and photographed  planet in the universe  aside from the earth of course in the  past few decades alone we've managed to  send so many rovers and spacecraft to  mars which have provided us with new  information and photographs of the  planet  and it has also piqued the interest of  quite a few conspiracy  theorists many of the photos captured on  mars  seem to resemble structures that seem  well  not so natural take a look at this  picture that when zoomed in  shows a rock that looks like a statue of  a human head  some commentators on the internet  actually said it looks like president  obama  while others say it's merely an illusion  but this is just one of the many crazy  structures that have been found on mars  such as apparent golf balls seashells  shiny metal objects and  even a rock that looks like a finger who  knows when humans visit mars  we might already have some company there  number two  pluto's atmosphere since the new horizon  spacecraft took high-definition images  of pluto and blew all of our minds  many new incredible discoveries have  been made about pluto  one of these discoveries is the unique  atmosphere of pluto  the haze from pluto's atmosphere can  reach a height of over 1 000 miles above  its surface  this is much higher than the height of  the earth's atmosphere despite earth  being a much larger planet than pluto  pluto's atmosphere has at least 20  distinct layers to it  and these layers are much cooler than  previously thought and there are also  gaps in the atmosphere that let nitrogen  get out of the planet number one the  very big possibility of life  outside our planet while sometimes we  may feel lonely here on earth as it's  currently the only planet we know of  that has actual life on it  we might not be all that lonely after  all while there has never been a  confirmation of life on another planet  the possibility has never been ruled out  by neither nasa nor any other space  agency in the world  why's that it's because we keep  discovering things in the universe that  we  never in a million years thought we  would including galaxies  outside the milky way planets outside  our solar system and so much more  the possibilities of further discoveries  are endless  and when you add the rate at which these  discoveries are being made  the possibility of us discovering actual  life on another planet  might not be too far-fetched if you  enjoyed this article  make sure to leave us a like and  subscribe to our channel for more articles  like this one  you