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A human body, or any object on the Earth, is never
at rest. Even when you’re asleep in bed, you’re
moving pretty fast. Our Milky Way Galaxy is
rotating at 225 kilometers per second, and hurling
through the cosmos at an estimated 305
kilometers per second. Add those figures together,
and we’re racing through space at around 530
kilometers, or 330 miles per second. So in one
minute’s time, you’ve traveled almost 20,000
kilometers, or more than 12,000 miles. And your
friends always complain that you never go
anywhere.

An Asteroid Might Hit The Earth in 2029

The greatest chance so far, according to
astronomers, of a large asteroid colliding with the
earth and wiping life out is in 2029. Asteroids have
hit the planet before, and caused mass extinctions,
so there is some precedent for it happening again.
The culprit this time is the Apophis Asteroid
(99942 Apophis), which is headed our way in
2029. There’s a little less than a 3% chance that
this bad boy will crash into terra firma. Let’s hope
Apophis gives the planet a miss, otherwise you
can stop paying into your retirement account right
now.

We Are Made Out of Stars

Human beings are literally made out of star stuff .
Almost all of the chemical elements that make up
a person come from the stars. Any element heavier
than hydrogen originated in the stars, and we are
definitely composed of more than hydrogen.
Calcium, carbon, hydrogen, nitrogen, oxygen and
around 60 other basic ingredients make up a
human being. Since hydrogen and helium were the
only elements around before the stars “cooked” up
some more, it’s a safe bet that most of the
substance that constitutes the “physical” you
comes from the stars.

One Million Earths Could Fit Inside The Sun

Even though there are a lot of stars out there, none
is more important to us than our own sun. When
compared to other stars, it’s fairly small, classified
as a G2 dwarf star. But that doesn’t mean we’re
complaining. Approximately one million Earths
could fit inside this dwarf star. It might not be the
largest star in the universe, but it gets the job done
as far as sustaining life on Earth goes.

Europa is one of Jupiter's moons.

The Biggest Mountain in Our Solar System Is on
Mars

Sorry Mount Everest — you’re not the king of the
solar system. That honor belongs to Olympus
Mons, a massive mountain on our planetary
neighbor, Mars. Olympus Mons is a giant mound
of red dirt and rock. This volcanic behemoth is
2,400 meters, or 80,000 feet tall, which makes it
almost 15 miles high. Everest is a mere dwarf in
comparison. This giant Martian volcano is either a
mountain climber’s wildest dream, or worst
nightmare.