Humans have puzzled over Astronomy - the science of space - for hundreds of thousands of years. Over time, our star gazing has discovered many things about the nature of our Solar System and the hidden depths of the Universe - but many secrets of space are still waiting to be discovered.
Find out why...
- The Universe began with a Big Bang
- Our Universe contains over 100 billion galaxies
- Every galaxy has a black hole at its centre
- The centre of the Sun is over 15 million degrees Celsius
- You can tell how hot a star is by looking at its colour
- Jupiter is like a star that failed to ignite
- We are all made of stardust
- The Earth weighs about thousand, billion, billion tonnes
- The tallest known volcano is on Mars
- If you could drive to the Sun it would take 200 years
- Man-made objects are now exploring beyond the Solar System
- In 2004 scientists discovered a 10th planet orbiting the Sun