This pressure then makes the hydrogen turn into helium. The middle of a star is very, very hot and it gets squeezed by the pressure. A star is a ball of very hot gases.Ī star is made up of very hot gases. That would be a long few months if they couldn’t speak! 10. Luckily, astronauts can speak using their radios as the radio waves are still able to travel. It is completely silent in space.ĭid you know that it is completely silent in space? He orbited the Earth 7,000 times and spent his days doing experiments and scientific research.įind out about the science jobs in space! 9. Valery Polyakov holds the record and was up in space from January 1994 until March 1995.
The longest time spent in space is a whole 437 days. The longest time an astronaut has spent in space is 437 days! Watch this video from Deep Space High to find out more! 8.
Pluto used to be a planet but it got demoted in 2006 and is now known as a dwarf planet. They are Earth, Jupiter, Mars, Mercury, Venus, Saturn, Neptune and Uranus. The moon reflects the light from the Sun which is why we can see it so clearly. The light isn’t actually coming from the moon. The Moon reflects light from the Sun.ĭuring the night, the Moon looks really bright! They absorb body heat and then when the body needs warmth, it will release heat. Luckily space suits are very well insulated to keep the astronauts warm in the cold conditions. Space is very cold and is around -270.45 Celsius. Space is a very cold place at – 270.45 Celsius! In fact, it’s so big you could fit 1.3 million planet Earths inside it!ĥ. You could fit 1.3 million Earths into the Sun!
Sometimes up to 25,000 miles per hour! Embed from Getty Images 4. However if you wanted to go even further into space, out of Earth’s gravity, then you would need to travel even faster. The rocket will travel 17,600 miles per hour to enable it to orbit around the Earth. Have you ever seen a rocket take off to go into space? For a rocket to get into orbit around Earth, it needs to travel 17,600 miles per hour! Yuri circled the Earth for 108 minutes! Embed from Getty Images 3. He went up into space on 12th April, 1961. The first person to go to space was a man called Yuri Gagarin. It must have been very scary to be the first person in space, ever! The first person in space was Yuri Gagarin. Neil Armstrong said the famous words “That’s one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind” as he step foot on the moon.įind out about the jobs in space! Embed from Getty Images 2.
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