Here are some of the interesting and amazing facts about the stars.
- There are more stars in this universe than all of the grains of sand on earth.
- The stars can be seen from the bottom of a well even in day light.
- The Sun is a star, and is made of 70% Hydrogen, 28% helium and 2% metals. The diameter of Sun is 1,390,000 Kilo meters.
- The distance between Earth and Sun is about 1,50,000,000 Kilo meters but it is not constant.
- The Stars with strong gravity try to become smaller and smaller and finally turn into black holes.
- The stars come in different colors. The hot stars give blue light and the cool stars give red light.
- All the stars in the Milky Way galaxy revolve around the center of this galaxy once every 200 million years.
- There are nearly 250 billion stars in our galaxy and it is believed that there are 100 billion galaxies in this universe.
- A Comet's tail always points away from the sun.
- A galaxy of a typical size, with about 100 billion suns produces less energy than a single Quasar.
- A Pulsar is a small star made up of neutrons so densely packed together that if one pulsar of a size of a silver dollar landed on earth, would weight approximately 100 million tons.
- The Star 'Alpha Herculis' is 25 times larger than the circumference described by earth's revolution around the sun.
