10 unnecessary stupid facts about planets

Hey little astronaut of mine. Are you also interested in spacey facts? Then stick around for some cool facts about space. Bet you’ll be the André Kuipers of your friend group soon!

1. Crazy about cake? Then you should be on Venus. On Venus, you actually celebrate your birthday every other day. And it’s a long party too, because a day on Venus lasts 243 Earth days. Wow.

2. Uranus is a planet filled with gas (yep, this joke works better in English, HAHA).

3. Many think that the sun revolves around the Earth. Aren't we the center of the universe? Nope. Everything you thought about that is wrong. It turns out that the Earth actually revolves around the sun. The cause of this is still quite unclear.

4. Sometimes you almost forget how big planets are in relation to each other. Just think that if the sun were the size of a basketball, the Earth would be a dot of just over two millimeters.

5. It’s pretty dusty on Earth. An estimated 100,000 kilograms of space dust lands on Earth every day. By the way, you see little of that: on one square kilometer, just over one gram of space dust lands each week.

6. Did you know that the moon is a remnant from a collision between the Earth and another planet?

7. The hottest planet we have ever found is KELT-9b (hi 4300 degrees Celsius). The reason for this insane temperature is the fact that it is very close to the extremely hot star KELT-9: there, the temperature rises to nearly 10,000 degrees.

8. Oh, and the coldest temperature ever measured on a planet in our solar system is Uranus. Here, the mercury once dropped to -224 degrees.

9. If you like it then you should put a ring on it. I get Beyoncé, but come on, why Saturn? The short answer I can give us: Saturn's ring is probably a shattered moonlet and consists of countless small fragments. Most in the system are largely made of ice and range in size from a few centimeters to ten to twenty meters.

10. No idea what to do with this, but if you flattened 11,990 Earth balls, you could cover the entire surface of the sun with them. Have a nice Sunday, huh.