Monks in the 16th century recorded seeing a giant explosion on the side of the Moon. It most likely was a large meteor that slammed into the Moon and left a large crater. It was a good thing the Moon was between us and the meteor!
See the rings of Saturn while you can. They slowly wobble up and down over the years as Saturns poles point away from then towards the sun. The rings disappear when edge on to our line of sight. Currently they are almost at their widest point and can be seen even in binoculars and small telescopes.
Stars viewed through even the largest telescopes look like tiny points of light. But astronomers, using the Hubble Space Telescope to photograph a star called Betelgeuse (pronounced "beetle jooze"), have now been able to see the surface of another star. Betelgeuse is a red, giant star located at the left shoulder of the constellation Orion and is the largest known star in our galaxy.
Not all stars are found inside galaxies. Astronomers have found stars moving between the galaxies, which are millions of light years apart. These stars may even have planets, possibly with intelligent life on them. If they do, these beings would see a lonely sky with just one star (its own sun) and a few faint galaxies.
The Hubble Telescope has photographed pictures of auroras on Jupiter and Saturn very much like those at our North and South Poles. But if we had auroras as big as these, they would cover the entire Earth and more.
If you were to place the planet Saturn in a big enough bowl of water, it would float!
The space program that launched the first person into outer space was the Soviet program called Vostok. Yuri Gagarin was the first human to go into space aboard Vostok 1 on April 12, 1961.
The first chimpanzee launched into outer space was named Ham. He was sent into space by NASA in 1961 aboard the Mercury-Redstone 2 mission to test the effects of space travel on a living organism.
There is every known element floating around in outer space, since that is where most of the elements on Earth originally came from. When a star that is 25 times the size of our own sun goes supernova, it explodes and sends out most of it's mass (24 solar masses) into outer space.
That depends on what you mean by "outer space". The moon is outside the Earth's atmosphere and therfore "in space" but it is orbiting the Earth and therfore hardly "outer".
They Came from Outer Space was created on 1990-10-01.
The first creature to go to outer space was a dog named Laika.
The first thing sent into outer space was a satellite
Astronomy is all about the things in outer space and planets are in outer space.
"Outer space" is fine. The word "Universe" is a similar concept.
The first Iowan in space was Peggy Whitson.
The first animal sent to Outer space was a dog named Laika.
Alan Shepard was the first and second American to go to outer space.
The first space shuttle sent into outer space was the Space Shuttle Columbia. It was launched on April 12, 1981, as part of the STS-1 mission.
Outer space was not discovered by a single person, as it has always existed. However, the first human to travel to outer space was Yuri Gagarin, a Soviet astronaut, who orbited Earth in 1961.
America's first satellite launched into outer space was called the Explorer 1, and was launched in 1958.
The first black person to travel to outer space was Guion Bluford, who flew on the Space Shuttle Challenger in 1983.
Alan sheperd was the first astronaut in space.