Space Odyssey: 10 Incredible Facts That Redefine Our Cosmic Perspective

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Did you know space isn't silent? Yes sound waves exist in interstellar medium and black holes

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Olympus Mons on Mars is the largest volcano in the solar system, it is 13.6 miles high, and 370 miles wide

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Do you know that The Hercules-Corona Borealis Great Wall is one of the largest known structures in the universe? It is 10 billion light-years wide

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According to Einstein's theory of relativity, time passes more slowly in strong gravitational fields or at high speeds. Astronauts traveling at high speeds in space would age slower than people on Earth

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Did you know the faint glow of the Big Bang's afterglow is known as the cosmic microwave background radiation?

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Do you know our Milky Way galaxy and other galaxies are being pulled toward a massive region of space called the Great Attractor, which is still not fully understood?

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While space is often thought of as completely silent, it's not entirely devoid of sound. There are regions in space where sound waves can exist, such as in the interstellar medium and within black holes, but they are not audible to the human ear

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The black hole in galaxy cluster Abell 2261 was thought to be impossible as it is ten times larger than what current models of black hole growth predict

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Large galaxies can "eat" smaller galaxies in a process known as galactic cannibalism. When galaxies collide, the larger one can absorb stars and matter from the smaller one, resulting in the merging of the two galaxies

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Jupiter's Great Red Spot is a massive storm that has been raging for at least 350 years and is so large that it could fit three Earths inside it

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