TOP : 10
Fact : The universe contains around 50,000,000,000 galaxies each of which has between 100,000,000,000 and 1,000,000,000,000, stars.
Source : Life Science Centre
Galaxies inside the Universe |
TOP : 9
Fact : At the speed of light, time stops.
Source : National Geographic
Speed of light |
TOP : 8
Fact : Dark matter makes up 83% of the matter in the universe but we can't see it and we don't know what it is.
Source : Daily Telegraph UK and BBC
The dark matter |
TOP : 7
Fact : Time passes more slowly in orbit around the Earth meaning, returning astronauts arrive home slightly younger than if they had spent the same amount of time on Earth.
Source : National Geographic
Astronaut in space |
TOP : 6
Fact : Atoms are 99.9999999999999% empty space meaning all the matter making up the entire human race could fit into a sugar cube.
Source : Daily Telegraph UK
Atoms empty space |
TOP : 5
Fact : Just a thimbleful of a neutron star would weigh over 100 million tons.
Source : Life Science
Neutron star |
TOP : 4
Fact : Sagittarius 3, an interstellar gas cloud contains a billion, billion, billion liters of alcohol.
Source : Softedia
Sagittarius 3 |
TOP : 3
Fact : The most powerful explosions ever witnessed in the universe are gamma-ray bursts - they are trillions of times brighter than our sun.
Source : National Geographic
Gamma Ray bursts |
TOP : 2
Fact : In quantum Physics causality can work backwards. Our choices in the present can effectively determine what occurred in the past.
Source : Daily Telegraph UK
Hakan Nordkvist - The Time Traveller?
TOP : 1
Fact : According to some models of cosmology, there are an infinite number of universes with an infinite number of people watching this video.
Source : Daily Telegraph
Holographic universe? |
Data Sources :
- www.youtube.com/watch?v=yD75zV05NQg
- www.en.wikipedia.org
- www.news.nationalgeographic.com
- www.astronomytime.com
- www.gameconnect.net
- www.wallpaper77.com
- www.wired.co.uk
- www.en.wikipedia.org
- www.astronomytours.co.uk
- www.en.wikipedia.org
- www.fromquarkstoquasars.com
- www.youtube.com
- www.dailygalaxy.com
Please be noted that the top 10 that we are including here in our blog are all unofficial rankings unless otherwise noted. Most of the top ten lists are based on Google search results and collected mainly from different blogs and websites around the internet world.
Sponsored Links : |
Advertisements |