1. Red giant star Betelgeuse, has a diameter larger than the orbit of the Earth around the Sun.

2. 19% of the solar energy is absorbed by the atmosphere, 47% - falls to the Ground, and 34% is returned to space.

3. The duration of full solar Eclipse does not exceed 7.5 minutes; full lunar Eclipse - 104 minutes.

4. If the Earth rotated in the opposite direction around its axis, then in a year would be on two days less.

5. First star catalogue was compiled by the Hipparcos 150 BC

6. 99 percent of the mass of the solar system is concentrated in the Sun.

7. About forty new stars appear in our galaxy each year.

8. The height of the volcano Knicks Olympic found on Mars, more than 20 km

9. When we look at the most distant of the visible stars, we are looking for 4 billion years into the past. The light from her travelling with the speed of almost 300 000 km/sec reaches us only after many years.

10. 10 minutes spacecraft can take pictures up to 1 million square kilometers of the earth's surface, while the plane such surface rent for 4 years, and geographers and geologists would not less than 80 years.

11. The only married couple who flew into space - American astronauts Jan Davis and mark Lee, which was part of the crew of the Shuttle "endever" (12-20 September, 1992).

12. The car, dujostata with an average speed of 60 miles per hour, it would take approximately 48 million years to reach the nearest to us star (the Sun) Proxima Centauri.

13. 12 billion years is the age of the oldest galaxies, space telescope photographed "Hubble".

14. For the last 500 years the mass of the Earth has increased by one billion tons at the expense of cosmic matter.

15. Southern Cross - the smallest constellation in the sky, but it has the largest concentration of bright stars.

16. The distance to the nearest (the Sun) from us stars (Proxima Centauri) - 4,24 light years.

17. The smallest planet in the Solar system, Pluto, the biggest one - Jupiter.

18. All the planets of the solar system could fit inside the planet Jupiter.

19. The pressure in the center of the Earth 3 million times higher than the pressure in the earth's atmosphere.

20. The duration of the first exit into space (Leonov) was 12 seconds.

21. One minute the Sun produces more energy than all Land uses in a year.

22. For all time of existence station "World" it was visited 135 people from 11 countries.

23. Aboard the station "World" is more than 14 tons of various research instruments.

24. The total mass of the station "World" with two docked ships is more than 36 tons.

25. The duration of one "year" on the planet Pluto - 247,7 earth years.

26. The first space flight of Yuri Gagarin lasted 1 hour 48 minutes.

27. 2.5 km - maximum thickness of the ice cover on the North pole of Mars.

28. Orbital station "World" was put into orbit on 20 February 1986.

29. Asteroids 4147, 4148, 4149, and 4150 named after the "Beatles": John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison and Ringo Starr, respectively.

30. If you fill a teaspoon with the substance, which consist of a neutron star, its weight will be about 110 million tons!

31. The largest lunar crater visible from Earth, is called Bailey or "field of death". It has an area of about 26,000 square miles.

32. The first black person to go into space was Guion Bluto Younger, were part of the crew of the third flight "Challenger" (August 30, 1983).

33. The earth is the only planet not named in honor of God.

34. The first map of the moon was made in 1609 Thomas Harriot.

35. Carolyn Schumacher has opened 32 comets and over 800 asteroids.

36. The highest temperature on the moon - 117 degrees Celsius.

37. The Martian atmosphere is 95% carbon dioxide.

38. The lowest temperature on the moon -164 degrees Celsius.

39. The first Observatory was built in South Korea.

40. The highest mountain on the moon has a height of 11 500 meters.

41. The hottest planet in our universe - Venus.

42. The largest planetarium in the world is located in Moscow.

43. Mountains on Mars reach the height of 20-25 kilometres.

44. Planet Uranus is visible from Earth with the naked eye.

45. Of the twelve stars, the Chapel is the northernmost.

46. Night temperature on the moon reaches 150 degrees Celsius.

47. Each day falls to the Ground about 200 thousands of meteorites.

48. The sunlight hits the Ground you want about 8.5 minutes.

49. If you extend a web nearest to us stars in the constellation of Centaurus, then it would weigh five hundred thousand tons.

50. About 27 tons of cosmic dust fall to Earth every day. During the year, more than 10 000 tons of dust lands on the Ground.

51. The area of the solar surface the size of a postage stamp shines with the same energy as 1 500 000 candles.

52. Astronomers believe that the Universe every atom of matter have about 400 liters of space.

53. Neutron stars are the strongest magnets in the Universe. The magnetic field of a neutron star in a million million times greater than the Earth's magnetic field.

54. Ganymede, the largest of the satellites of the planet Jupiter in its size exceeds the planet mercury. Diameter of Ganymede is about 5269 kilometers.

55. A day on the planet mercury is twice longer than a year. Mercury rotates on its axis very slowly, and one revolution around the Sun takes just under 88 days.

56. For all time of launched satellites into space, only one of them was destroyed caught in it a meteorite (satellite of the European Space Agency "Olympus" in 1993).

57. The diameter of the moon - 3476 km.

58. On the Venus night long years.

59. The earth weighs about 600 trillion tons.

60. The moon easier Earth 80 times.