Bizarre Space FACTS

If the Sun stopped producing energy today, we wouldn't know
about it for ten million years.

On a clear night in the autumn you can see two million years
back in time.

The first living creature to orbit the Earth was a dog called
Laika.

People in space are up to 5 centimeters taller than they are
on Earth. Without the effect of gravity pressing them down,
their vertebrae (sections of their spine) move a little
further apart.

The footprints that Neil Armstrong and the other astronauts
left on the surface of the Moon will still be there in a
million years' time.

Jupiter is so big you could fit the Earth inside it 1300
times over.

On the Sun a person would be as heavy as an elephant is on
Earth. The Sun is 330,000 times more massive than the Earth,
so its gravity is very strong.