10 Crazy Facts You Didn't Know About Space

Space is completely silent due to the absence of an atmosphere for sound to travel.

Venus is the hottest planet in our solar system with an average surface temperature of around 450°C.

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A full NASA space suit costs $12,000,000, primarily due to the expensive backpack and control module.

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The Sun's mass constitutes 99.86 per cent of the total mass in our solar system.

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The Sun is so massive that approximately one million Earths could fit inside it.

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There are more trees on Earth (approximately three trillion) than stars in the Milky Way galaxy.

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Sunsets on Mars appear blue due to the fine dust in the atmosphere altering the sky's color.

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The number of stars in the universe is estimated to be around 1,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000.

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One day on Venus is longer than one year, with a slow axis rotation taking 243 Earth days.

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There is a planet called 55 Cancri e, twice the size of Earth, believed to be covered in graphite and diamond.

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