If you cry in space, the tears just stick to your face.
The International Space Station is about the size of a football field.
It also weighs about 925,000 pounds, which seems right when you consider it has as much livable space as a standard six-bedroom home — with the added perks of a gym and 360-degree bay window.
(Where can we play on a NASA football field? Asking for a friend.)
NASA / Via nasa.gov
The Hubble Space Telescope observed a tiny patch of sky for 11.6 days and found about 10,000 galaxies.
The patch was just one-tenth the diameter of the moon. Makes you feel small, doesn't it?
NASA / Reuters
The Hubble has traveled more than 3 billion miles in its orbit around Earth.
That is, as of its 24th anniversary this past April. To give you a sense of its size, it's about as long as a large school bus and weighs as much as two full-grown elephants. It also generates a mere 844 gigabytes of data a month.
NASA / Via nasa.gov
The sun rises in the west and sets in the east on Venus.
That's because Venus spins backward when compared to the other planets' rotation. Ancient Venusians would be so lost on Earth. :(
NASA/JPL/USGS / Via solarsystem.nasa.gov
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