These facts come from the pages of TIME for Kids books, which help curious kids learn more about their favorite topics. Rocket off toward the stars with these phenomenal facts about space.
Scientists believe that, in the known universe, there are more than 2 TRILLION galaxies—and that each galaxy contains billions of stars with their own solar systems.
Cosmonaut GENNADY PADALKA holds the record for most overall time spent in space. If you add up all his missions, he’s spent a total of 879 days in space.
In 1998, the INTERNATIONAL SPACE STATION (ISS) was launched. This feat required the USA, Russia, Japan, Europe, and Canada working together as a team. It took 10 years and more than 30 space missions to assemble the ISS.
Mars is home to the tallest mountain ever discovered, OLYMPUS MONS. It’s more than 16 miles tall. That’s 11 miles taller than Earth’s Mount Everest.
In 2012, the VOYAGER 1 SPACE PROBE left our solar system and became the first spacecraft to enter interstellar space.
Scientists captured the first photograph of a BLACK HOLE in 2019 by linking together eight giant telescopes. The first black hole to be photographed is 6.5 billion times the mass of our sun.
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