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Earth Moon divorce, Diamond planet, car driving at speed of light, this is how crazy gets crazier
10 Crazy Facts About Space to make you smile
- There’s a giant cloud of alcohol in space.
A cloud of ethyl alcohol 1,000 times the size of our solar system exists at Sagittarius B2 which is near the Milky Way’s centre. It contains enough alcohol to fill 400 trillion trillion pints of beer. If we could harvest it, we’d never run out of booze!
2. Our Earth is losing the moon. At the rate of 3.8% a year, the moon is constantly drifting away from earth which in coming times will make total solar eclipse impossible.
It’s quite like Earth and moon are heading for divorce!
3. 55 Cancri e is a super earth planet that is made entirely of diamonds.
You bet, Elon Musk is already planning space taxies for diamond mining.
4. Jupiter, the gentle giant is far from gentle. It is actually fiercely stormy. Its storms can last 300 years or more. Its famous great red spot is a gigantic storm that has been going on unabated since 1600s.
